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ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 114.5 meter high sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It is sited between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre.
150 Sec exposure, f 7.1, 16 Stop ND filter.
shot with:
Canon Digital EOS Rebel XSi
SIGMA EX 10-20mm 4-5.6 DC HSM
place of origin:
Düsseldorf - K21 Ständehaus
I love the look from the Orbits Ringflash, even without the signature Ringflash halo. I put my SB900 in it with a sync cord to my hotshoe, stuck it on my 24-70 2.8 and chased my son around the house in TTL mode. Can't beat that color saturation!
There's a brand new gift available at the store and marketplace. The Orbit necklace and bracelets set comes in 3 metal and 3 pearls colors.
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Standing in the Olympic Park looking up at the ArcelorMittal Orbit as the moon sits high above it.
Equipment:
. Canon EOS 5D Mark III
. Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II USM
Exposure:
. Tripod
. 50mm @ f/8, ISO 100 & 8 Seconds
As I was photographing the crescent moon, an airplane flew by, giving the shot an interesting perspective, almost as if it were orbiting the moon.
Balance, between heat and cool
Fire and Ice.
Focus, find that point. Calm, warm, passion.
Let me find that sound. The beating of the heart, where the music echos.
Hold me close.
Upon the hands rest the choice.
Right or wrong? there is no clear path.
I wish I had answers, even in the rear view mirror.
Go North West has recently introduced newer buses on its 52 and 53 routes, representing a huge upgrade for two important bus routes which connect many of our city's suburbs. The 52 runs from Failsworth to Salford Shopping City and the intu Trafford Centre, whilst the 53 - Manchester’s oldest unchanged bus route - takes an orbital circuit of the city, connecting Cheetham Hill with North Manchester General Hospital, Blackley, Harpurhey, Sportcity, Gorton, Belle Vue, Longsight, Rusholme, Salford Quays and Pendleton.
I came across some "orbital sniper" illustrations on Deviantart a little while ago and thought it was such a crazy and impractical concept I had to build one! I can't imagine a person's head and shoulders would present a large target from orbit so maybe they'd be better off against tanks etc where the armour on the top surfaces is usually thinnest???
djahal.deviantart.com/art/Galaxy-Saga-applibot-Orbital-sn...
The UK's tallest public artwork in the world's longest and tallest tunnel slide at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Hi guys, how have you been?
I've been so busy lately.. making a portfolio website and looking for an internship and stuff. Haven't really had the time to organize my photos or to take pictures
I also went to Dusseldorf with some friends. It was super fun ^^ We went to the K21 museum! Tomás Saraceno made a huge installation 25 metres above the ground. And visitors could walk in through his artwork. It is really scary when you see the ground 25 metres below you, but it's worth it!
I really like the big silver ball. You can see reflections in it~
A digital art creation, consisting of five layers, at varying opacities. No photographic input.
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Zagreb - Tehnički muzej Nikola Tesla - Model of orbital station Salyut 1 (scale 1 : 10)
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops confirmed the existence of four warm exoplanets orbiting four stars in our Milky Way. These exoplanets have sizes between Earth and Neptune and orbit their stars closer than Mercury our Sun.
These so-called mini-Neptunes are unlike any planet in our Solar System and provide a ‘missing link’ between Earth-like and Neptune-like planets that is not yet understood. Mini-Neptunes are among the most common types of exoplanets known, and astronomers are starting to find more and more orbiting bright stars.
Mini-Neptunes are mysterious objects. They are smaller, cooler, and more difficult to find than the so-called hot Jupiter exoplanets which have been found in abundance. While hot Jupiters orbit their star in a matter of hours to days and typically have surface temperatures of more than 1000 °C, warm mini-Neptunes take longer to orbit their host stars and have cooler surface temperatures of only around 300 °C.
The first sign of the existence of these four new exoplanets was found by the NASA TESS mission. However, this spacecraft only looked for 27 days at each star. A hint to a transit – the dimming of light as a planet passes in front of its star from our viewpoint – was spotted for each star. During its extended mission, TESS revisited these stars and the same transit was seen again, implying the existence of planets.
Scientists calculated the most likely orbital periods and pointed Cheops at the same stars at the time they expected the planets to transit. During this hit-or-miss procedure Cheops was able to measure a transit for each of the exoplanets, confirming their existence, discovering their true orbital periods and taking the next step in their characterisation.
The four newly discovered planets have orbits between 21 and 53 days around four different stars. Their discovery is essential because it brings our sample of known exoplanets closer to the longer orbits that we find in our own Solar System.
One of the outstanding questions about mini-Neptunes is what they are made of. Astronomers predict that they have an iron-rocky core with thick outer layers of lighter material. Different theories predict different outer layers: Do they have deep oceans of liquid water, a puffy hydrogen and helium atmosphere or an atmosphere of pure water vapour?
Discovering the composition of mini-Neptunes is important to understand the formation history of this type of planet. Water-rich mini-Neptunes probably formed far out in the icy regions of their planetary system before migrating inwards, while combinations of rock and gas would tell us that these planets stayed in the same place as they formed.
The new Cheops measurements helped determine the radius of the four exoplanets, while their mass could be determined using observations from ground-based telescopes. Combining the mass and radius of a planet gives an estimate of its overall density.
The density can only give a first estimate of the mass of the iron-rocky core. While this new information about the density is an important step forward in understanding mini-Neptunes, it does not contain enough information to offer a conclusion for the outer layers.
The four newly confirmed exoplanets orbit bright stars, which make them the perfect candidates for a follow-up visit by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope or ESA’s future Ariel mission. These spectroscopic missions could discover what their atmospheres contain and provide a definitive answer to the composition of their outer layers.
A full characterisation is needed to understand how these bodies formed. Knowing the composition of these planets will tell us by what mechanism they formed in early planetary systems. This in turn helps us better understand the origins and evolution of our own Solar System.
The results were published in four papers: ‘Refined parameters of the HD 22946 planetary system and the true orbital period of the planet d’ by Z. Garai et al. is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
‘Two Warm Neptunes transiting HIP 9618 revealed by TESS & Cheops’ by H. P. Osborn et al. is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
‘TESS and CHEOPS Discover Two Warm Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Bright K-dwarf HD15906’ by A. Tuson et al. is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
‘TOI-5678 b: a 48-day transiting Neptune-mass planet characterized with CHEOPS and HARPS’ by S. Ulmer-Moll et al. is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Credits: ESA (Acknowledgement: work performed by ATG under contract for ESA), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Class 378 unit number 213 is caught crossing the River Lea in some evening sunshine passing the Arcelor Mittal Orbit and West Hams Stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She was working the 1829 Clapham to Stratford which travels across the North London Line which is very much different from the days when I last crossed it from Richmond to Broad Street on an old Class 501.