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Your Pictures on the Theme of 'Circles'
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We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "circles". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.
World’s Largest Spherical Building Lights Up With Mesmerizing Animations
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MSG Sphere was recently catapulted into the spotlight when it decided to light up its dynamic, animated exterior for the first time.
See The Webb Telescope’s Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Uranus
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has become only the third telescope to ever image the seventh planet’s faint rings.
Giant meatball created using woolly mammoth flesh
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A mammoth meatball has been created using the resurrected flesh of the long-extinct animal.
A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear
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Scientists found an unexpected discovery on the surface of Mars: a formation resembling the face of a bear.
Giant Inflatable Moon Escapes Mid-Autumn Festival
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In China's Henan Province, a giant inflatable moon balloon got loose from Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrations and rolled across the city with abandon.
View the video at YouTube
Big discoveries are sometimes small
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A new diatom genus and species, Fascinorbis illustris, was recently discovered and reported in the journal Diatom Research by researchers from Indiana State University, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the University of Arkansas.
Every Space Blob Has A Story
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This colorful blob of space stuff has a fascinating history. It's a supernova remnant, the leftover bits from after the explosive death of a new star.
In the 19th Century, Pumpkin Pie Ignited a Culture War
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Each time I serve pumpkin pie, I get to share a little known slice of American history. Although meant to unify people, the 19th-century campaign to make Thanksgiving a permanent holiday was seen by prominent Southerners as a culture war.
Collecting The "Fun Stuff"
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Online projects devoted exclusively to lovely photographs of carefully arranged groups of objects. A genre whose attraction has less to do with documentation than with capturing a way of seeing, “a stance toward things. . . . A faith that if we look and look we will be surprised and we will be rewarded."
13 Animals Made From 13 Circles
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Graphic Designer Dora Pankowska took up a creative challenge: create compositions using only 13 perfect circles. Inspired by the Twitter logo, she's created 13 animals on her portfolio site.
Mandalas: How the Sacred Circle Helps Us Reconnect With Ourselves
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At the most basic level, mandalas represent wholeness, unity and harmony. However, every mandala has a unique meaning.
Ubuntu
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Ubuntu (oo-boon-too, n.) is a Zulu or Xhosa word, and a traditional African concept. It means, “I am because we are.”
The Hollow Steel Ball That Changed Ocean Exploration Forever
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In the 1930s, the bathysphere propelled scientists deeper into the sea than they had ever been before. In the spring of 1930, a group of scientists and artists sailed to a tropical island called Nonsuch in Bermuda.
Aerial Images Reveal Mysterious 'Big Circles' in Middle East
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Huge stone circles discovered by air in the Middle East have been imaged with high resolution, revealing their age and other intriguing details. Here's a look at the "Big Circles," which have puzzled scientists for decades.
The First Picture of a Black Hole
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Here's a Round you don't want to be around. A supermassive monster named M87 is 38 billion kilometers in diameter and only 50 million light-years away from us. Yikes!
Adorable Violet Chinchillas Look Like Perfect Circles from Behind
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Chinchillas are a small rodent species lauded for their adorable fluffiness, but Cameron Holmes of Cameron’s Chinchillas has a pack whose cuteness is off the charts.
The World is Full of Circles
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In honor of a very special Pi Day, Smithsonian Magazine posted this map that explores the human-made and natural structures that come closest to a perfect circle.
This Freaky Spinning Ice Circle in Maine Looks Like a Giant Alien Landmark
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It's been compared to crop circles, or the strange handiwork of aliens. Others say it looks like the Moon, if it somehow materialised in the chilly waters of the Presumpscot River.
America's King of Roundabouts
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Folks who love that elegant traffic doughnut with a proven safety record—the roundabout—should consider relocating to Carmel, Indiana.
Giant Disco Ball to Plummet Back to Earth
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The Humanity Star, a reflective satellite launched by private company Rocket Lab, is expected to flame out sometime soon after March 21, 2018.
The Science of Sun Halos
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A sun halo is an amazing phenomena of light and refraction that occurs in the right conditions. NASA explains the science behind it.
Welcome to Wreath Week
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What winter wonderland will we walk in willingly? While wide-eyed waifs wait and wrestle with wild wishes, we wave a warm welcome to Wreath Week. Will you watch?
Circular Plans in Architecture
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“The circle . . . is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. [It] combines the concentric and the excentric in a single form, and in equilibrium.
Tracking Hurricane Irma
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All eyes are on the skies and satellites as Hurricane Irma blasts across the Caribbean and towards the coast of Florida on September 9. The largest storm ever witnessed, Irma is being tracked by agencies around the globe.
The ABCs of Round Gallery
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Do you know your ABCs? Tomorrow is September 5th, and back to school time! Each day over the next 26 days we'll reveal new Round images that represent each letter of the alphabet. What will be the first letter? You'll have to be here to see.
Opening The ABCs of Round Gallery on September 5
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It's the end of summer. Back to school time. So, to help inspire all our school kids, what better time could there be to launch a brand new Round Museum gallery? Starting Tuesday, September 5th, join us every day as we examine The ABCs of Round, one letter at a time.
The Solar Eclipse 2017
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If you were lucky enough to reside in a diagonal zone crossing the US from Salem, Oregon, to Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, August 21, 2017, you were able to observe a total solar eclipse.
Frost Museum of Science in Miami
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The centerpiece of the Frost Museum of Science’s new three-level aquarium is a tank with a 31-foot-wide clear oculus at the bottom that gives visitors a sea-bottom view of sharks.
Statue of Liberty Torch Cam
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In 1916, access to the Statue of LIberty's Torch was closed to visitors, so the Torch view of New York Harbor has not been possible.
14 Fun Facts About Fireworks
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Like many Independence Days before it, this year’s celebrations will undoubtedly involve some sort of pyrotechnics display.
The Round Vision: First Anniversary Week
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Look Around You ... That's the call to action that launched The Round Museum on June 30, 2016 and the guiding philosophy for the whole museum collection. This week we celebrate our First Anniversary with a new See and Be Seen gallery that recognizes the power of the eye and Round things that represent vision and perception.
How Do You Draw a Circle?
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Revered by the ancient Greeks, essential to Islamic art, and venerated in Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, circles are a universal shape.
Japanese Puffer Fish Build Round Sandcastles
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“A lot of good naturalists have been looking at a lot of animals for a very long time, so finding something completely new is sadly a rarity these days.
Event Horizon Telescope Will Try to Photograph a Black Hole
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In perhaps the ultimate Round photo op, scientists from around the world are currently attempting to capture the first ever photograph of a black hole. This image isn't it, but a computer simulation.
Roundabouts Cause More Crashes?
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"Roundabouts are easy to love. They’re elegant in design, reduce traffic deaths compared to traditional intersections, and can support some gnarly public art.
The Burning Ring of FIre
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On Sunday February 26th, 2017, the southern hemisphere of the US was able to witness an annular solar eclipse.
The Roundest Star Ever
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Stars are not perfect spheres owing to centrifugal force. But there’s a star about 5,000 light-years from here that scientists now say is the roundest natural object ever measured in the universe.
The Concentric Layers of Baseball
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Throw the ball, hit the ball, run to the base before the ball gets there. Simple, right? Baseball may be a simple looking game, but there are complex nuances once you look more closely.
This Amazing Digital Clock Is Made Up of 288 Different Analog Clocks
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Because digital clocks are way easier to tell time but analog clocks are way classier, design studio Humans Since 1982 decided to combine the best of both worlds and make a digital clock from 288 different analog clocks.
Love Makes The World Go Round
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“Love makes the world go round” is a well known phrase all around the world, but the origins are a bit murky.
Five-Year Old Announces Circle No Longer Her Favorite Shape.
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Well... everyone can't be a fan.
Bits And Pieces – An Organic Wave of Hoberman Spheres
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Nils Völker exhibition in Berlin, Germany's NOME Gallery. The installation consists out of 108 mass-produced toy spheres hanging in the middle of the exhibition space,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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"An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international ne
A Look at the Painstaking, Intricate Art of Globemaking
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There are only a few dedicated artisanal globemakers left in the world—and there’s good reason for that.
3D Printed Sculptures Come Alive When Spun Under A Strobe Light
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John Edmark is an inventor, designer and artist who teaches design at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. One of his latest creations is a series of 3D-printed sculptures designed with proportions corresponding to the Fibonacci Sequence.
Riding Around the Wall of Death
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What is the Wall of Death? It’s a nearly vertical, circle-shaped track that most riders would consider insane. Before she was a Wall of Death rider, Kerri Cameron rode horses for a living.
How 10 Famous Artists Would Plate Thanksgiving Dinner
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In this fun series of photos titled Thanksgiving Special, San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein imagines Thanksgiving dinners as plated by famous artists throughout history.
Viñoly's Round Bridge
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Why build a straightforward bridge for an unremarkable sum when the same bridge could be built as a circle for vast amounts of money?
Spectacular Supermoon
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The moon is a familiar sight in our sky, brightening dark nights and reminding us of space exploration, past and present. But the upcoming supermoon — on Monday, Nov.
The Fibonacci Sequence
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A Fibonacci spiral is a series of connected quarter-circles drawn inside an array of squares with Fibonacci numbers for dimensions.
Giant Hole In the Ground
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A diamond mine in Russia is so deep that it creates a powerful vortex. Helicopters cannot fly over it due to the risk of getting sucked in.
The Whole Story
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Museums are cool. Wherever you go you will surely find amazing, beautiful, weird collections of stuff that someone has pulled together. Even before humans crawled from the muck, we have been creatures that collect.
The Wonderful Geometry Of Budapest's Spiral Staircases
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"Whether they're perfectly round or other shapes, spiral staircases are beautiful. And Budapest is full of Modernist architecture that includes some stairways to wonder."
Check out this Gizmodo collection of spiral staircase images.
The Worlds Largest Solar Power Plant
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"Take 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide. Control them with computers to focus the Sun's light to the top of 459-foot towers, where water is turned into steam to power turbines.
Scrap Metal Planets
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Boulder-based artist Mark Castator (FB) creates planets and moons from hundreds of small scrap metal pieces called “droppings” leftover form other sculpting projects.
Curiosity update: Driving and Drilling on Mars
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Launched November 26, 2011, Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover sent to Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
The 19th-Century Iron Balls Still Cleaning the Paris Sewers
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When the sewers of Paris get clogged with putrid waste, they're sometimes cleaned the same way they were over a century ago: with a giant, rolling ball.
Look Around Philadelphia with Bob Skiba
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Bob Skiba is a historian, tour guide, Curator of Collections at LGBT Archives at the William Way Community Center, and an avid Round collector, as well!
The Beetle Sphere: An Actual 1953 VW Beetle Formed into a Perfect Sphere by Ichwan Noor
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Jakatara-based sculptor Ichwan Noor with Mondecor Jakarta makes giant sculptures of vehicles morphed into a perfect spheres combined with polyester and aluminum, including this 1953 Volkswagen Beetle.
‘Hikaru Dorodango’ is the Japanese Art of Turning Dirt into Perfect Spheres
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Artist Bruce Gardner is a master of a curious Japanese artform called hikaru dorodango (literally: ‘shiny dumpling’) where regular dirt is slowly crafted into perfect shiny spheres.
ATLAS particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva
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It's December 15, 2015, and an auditorium in Geneva is packed with physicists. The air is filled with tension and excitement because everybody knows that something important is about to be announced.
What if Animals Were Round?
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If all animals became round overnight, would their daily life still run that smoothly?
Geometry shows why river rocks are round
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Giant Globes Collection
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The vision of Debra Jane Seltzer, Roadside Architecture is a virtual museum with over 60,000 photos of buildings, signs, and statues from all over the United States and Canada.
The Rakotzbrücke in Sachsen, Germany
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The Rakotzbrücke (Rakotz Brucke) is an unusual bridge commissioned in the 19th century by Friedrich Hermann Rötschke, the knight of Kromlau.