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cwnl: Armillary Sphere Image Copyright: P.K. Chen Stars of Ursa Major with noticeable shape of Big Dipper with seven bright stars over an astronomical instrument known as armillary sphere. What is an armillary sphere? The various shape of the instrument has been used by Greek, Persian and Arabs, Chinese and later by European astronomers to measure the coordinates of the celestial bodies. A model of objects in the sky (in the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centred on Earth, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features such as the ecliptic.

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Armillary Sphere

Image Copyright: P.K. Chen

Stars of Ursa Major with noticeable shape of Big Dipper with seven bright stars over an astronomical instrument known as armillary sphere.

What is an armillary sphere?

The various shape of the instrument has been used by Greek, Persian and Arabs, Chinese and later by European astronomers to measure the coordinates of the celestial bodies.

A model of objects in the sky (in the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centred on Earth, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features such as the ecliptic.

(Source: ikenbot, via transmigrating)

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.