Galaxy Cluster Collision Left a Clumpy Aftermath
Source: Space.com A distant galaxy cluster was spawned by a huge cosmic smash-up of four different clusters, which lasted hundreds of millions of years, a new study suggests. A team of scientists pieced together the violent history of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also known as Pandora’s Cluster, using several different telescopes […]
Picture of the Day: Eiffel Tower and lightening!
“I quickly grabbed my camera and put it on a tripod by the window,” said the 31-year-old photographer who caught the moment the Eiffel Tower appeared to be struck by lightning. The photo, taken from his apartment window last year, surfaced this week and won the Office du Tourisme de Paris […]
Picture of the Day: Memories of Alhamra
Source / Courtesy: Dawn.com By Aurangzeb Haneef In popular Spanish memory, Granada came to hold a rather romanticised vision. The Spanish saying goes: “Quien no ha visto Granada, no ha visto nada,” meaning that one who has not seen Granada has not seen anything. Poets wrote about it, singers sang about it, and […]
Picture of the Day: Hurricane Irene
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Picture of Day: The Old World Monkeys
Source / Courtesy: BBC A baby lion-tailed macaque clings to its mother at Berlin’s Zoological Gardens. The Old World monkey is among the rarest and most threatened primates. The Holy Quran uses the metaphor of apes for misguided people, for example: And when they insolently rebelled against that which they […]
Picture of the Day: Evening winds stir the robes of a Tuareg striding across Algeria’s Tassili-n-Ajjer
Courtesy / Source: National Geographic
Picture of the Day: Opening ceremony starts for Shenzhen Universiade
Source / Courtesy: China Daily China’s coming out party continues with the latest installment of a major international sporting event. This time the dynamic new city of Shenzhen steps on to the world stage by hosting the 26th Summer Universiade. The Games is bringing much-needed infrastructure and building an identity for […]
Picture of the century – Modern Walls – Barriers Continue to Divide Around the World
Source: Spiegel International The Berlin Wall, built 50 years ago this month, may be gone, but modern barriers can still be found around the world. Some are designed to keep people in, others are designed to keep people out while some are simply in place to keep people apart. SPIEGEL ONLINE correspondents profile […]
Picture of the Day: Wind and sun harnessed to cut emissions
Courtesy: China Daily Wind turbines and solar panels near Dafeng Harbor in East China’s Jiangsu province on August 1, 2011. The base is China’s biggest wind-light power plant, equipped with 174 wind turbines and 480,000 solar panels, which had generated 784 million kWh of power as of this July. The power […]
Picture of the day: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner.
Courtesy: National Geographic Click the picture to enlarge it. “He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.” (Al Quran 59:25) How can our study and […]
Picture of the Day: Lake Saiful Muluk Kaghan Valley, Pakistan
Source/Credit: Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopaedia Lake Saiful Muluk (Urdu: سیف الملوک) is a lake located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley (34°52′37.34″N 73°41′37.71″E) near Naran. It is in the north east of Mansehra Districtin the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. At an altitude of 3,224 m (10,578 feet) above sea level it is amongst one of the highest lakes in Pakistan. The weather here […]
Picture of the Day: Tsunami Strikes Phuket, Thailand
It is an older picture, not a recent development: This may not be a true picture and possibly artist’s exaggeration; viewer discretion is advised.
Picture of the Day – Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Source: APOD Explanation: Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when – it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae’s mass – about 100 times greater than our Sun – makes it an excellent candidate for a full blown supernova. Historical records do show that […]
Picture of The Day – Elephants, Kenya
the snows of Kilimanjaro, a blue sky and a herd of elephants in front of it all. KENYA Source: National Geographic
Picture of the day: Cactus Bee, Arizona
A cactus bee (Diadasia sp.) pollinates a barrel cactus in Tucson, Arizona. Source: National Geographic “He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.” (Al Quran 59:25) […]