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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
In 2009, the United States Dark Sky Week becomes International Dark Sky Week [13] [14] 8 2010 13–14 April [15] [16] 9 2011 3 April The world's first International Dark Sky City was founded in Flagstaff, AZ [17] [18] 10 2012 21 April 11 2013 10 April 12 2014 April 20–26 29 April [19] 13 2015 April 13–18 18 April
A dark-sky preserve status enables high-quality astronomical observation in Paranal Observatory. [1] A dark-sky preserve (DSP) is an area, usually surrounding a park or observatory, that restricts or reduces light pollution or maintains and protects naturally dark night skies. Different terms have been used to describe these areas as national ...
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (Japanese: 夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ, Hepburn: Yozora wa Itsu Demo Saikō Mitsudo no Aoiro da) [1] is a 2017 Japanese romantic drama [2] film directed by Yuya Ishii. [3] It is based on a book of poetry of the same name written by Tahi Saihate and published in 2016. [4] [5]
Archip Kuindshi, Moonlit Night on the Dnieper 1882 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1874 [1] [2] The depiction of night in paintings is common in Western art. Paintings that feature a night scene as the theme may be religious or history paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, or
The Midnight Sky is a 2020 American science fiction film directed by George Clooney based on the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. The script was written by Mark L. Smith . Clooney plays a leading role in his film, as an aging scientist who must venture across the frigid Arctic Circle to warn off a returning ...
SerenityOS is a free and open source desktop operating system.It features a preemptive kernel, currently supports x86-64, ARM, and RISC-V [1] [2] based computers, and hosts multiple complex applications including its own web browser and integrated development environment (IDE).
Two great masses dominate the visual space: the violence of the great wave contrasts with the serenity of the empty background, [19] evoking the yin and yang symbol. Man, powerless, struggles between the two, which may be a reference to Buddhism (in which man-made things are ephemeral), as represented by the boats being swept away by the giant ...