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Um homem numa viagem de milhares, talvez milhões de anos, viajando através do universo numa bolha espacial. Pode não ser fácil destrinçar o que é real e imaginário no último filme de Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain, mas eu confesso-me rendido à ideia desta viagem imortal a uma nébula à beira do colapso. E se acham que isso é estranho, vejam as imagens impressionantes da Bubble Nebula, também chamada de NGC7635. Um violento vento espacial e radiação intensa de uma estrela, que se supõe ter 10 a 20 vezes o tamanho do Sol, deflagrou uma estrutura de gás radiante e material denso que se transformou numa nuvem molecular.
E algumas pessoas acharam que o filme era incompreensível...

Space bubbles
One man on a journey for thousands, maybe millions of years, travelling across the universe in a space bubble. It may not be easy to discern from what’s real and imaginary in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, but I for one am surrendered to the idea of this immortal voyage into a dying nebula. And if you think that’s weird, check out those striking images of the (no kidding) Bubble Nebula, also called NGC7635. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from a star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud.
And some people thought the film was bizarre…

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  1. Blogger rua.suja  at 7/14/2007 06:52:00 PM  

    "um blogue de um intelectual que preferia discutir e mostrar as suas ideias num café perdido no Porto cheio de fumo de cigarros e vozes de outros intelectuais idiotas, mas como o mundo está-se a perder e só tem três amigos, vem para aqui, como os outros"

    http://quintodireito.blogspot.com/

    passa por lá,vê-o crescer e vai-me dizendo qualquer coisa

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