Astronomy
February 6, 2024

Incredible Sky Map Details Over 900,000 Stars, Galaxies, and Black Holes

A consortium of German astronomers has released a detailed sky map that includes over 710,000 supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, 180,000 X-ray emitting stars in our own Milky Way, and 12,000 clusters of galaxies. All of the data was collected via the eRosita X-ray telescope in just six months, which shows the power of this type of telescope. The eROSITA telescope was launched on the Spektrum-RG satellite in July 2019.

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Modern Art
February 6, 2024

Lost Gustav Klimt Painting Is Rediscovered After Almost 100 Years

Embed from Getty Images Gustav Klimt lived at a pivotal time in European history, as the once-powerful Austrian Empire was nearing its end. A member of the artistic Vienna Secessionist movement, he was influenced heavily by the Art Nouveau trends. The works of his later life before his death of Spanish Flu in 1918 are most famous. Colorful, slightly abstracted portraits gilded in gold filled this “Golden Phase.

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Dance
February 5, 2024

Guy Asks Random People on the Street To Teach Him Their Favorite Dance Moves

Dance is a universal language. Though people around the world move to different rhythms, the joy of swaying to music is shared by almost all cultures. This comes to light in Ed People's Favorite Dance Moves video series. In this project, as the name suggests, the young Belgian man asks strangers on the street to share their favorite moves with him, and they usually go all in.

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Installation
February 5, 2024

Thousands of Colorful Butterflies Invade Shanghai Pavilion in Emmanuelle Moureaux’s Latest Installation

Architect, artist, and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has marveled the world with her sweeping colorful installations. On her latest endeavor, the Tokyo-based French architect collaborated with Lancôme to turn Shanghai's CSSC Pavilion into a dreamscape. With thousands of butterflies in every hue imaginable, Moureaux offers an abstract representation of beauty and eternity. Titled 100 colors no.48 “100 colors butterflies,” this installation is part of a series Moureaux has been working on since 2013.

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