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Cherry Blossoms

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Washington Monument

Photograph by Karen Kasmauski

Cherry blossoms frame a sunset view of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. The blooming of the pink and white blossoms heralds spring's arrival in the nation's capital, where hundreds of thousands of visitors flock each year to visit the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

Cherry Blossoms in Rain

Photograph by Charles M. Kogod

Rain doesn't deter a walker from strolling the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., during the short blooming life of ornamental cherry trees. There are 12 different varieties of ornamental, or flowering, cherry trees in the District of Columbia. Ornamental cherry trees do not produce fruit.

Squirrel and Cherry Blossoms

Photograph by Fumiko Yarita, 2008 International Photo Contest

When I was driving through a local cemetery to view the cherry trees, I spotted this squirrel munching away the cherry blossom petals. It was very unusual so I took out my camera gear from the trunk and started shooting. He was just up there in the tree minding his business the whole time.

Cherry Blossoms and Jefferson Memorial

Photograph by Thomas Simonson, My Shot

On a cold spring morning I endeavored to capture the feeling of what the Cherry Blossoms held for visitors. Not for my own nostalgia, but to convey to friends and family around the country—to allow them to somehow share the sweet, warming scent of the blossoms. However, not every day on the Mid-Atlantic coast is sunny—and I think this picture helps convey that even on cloudy days, seeing this spectacular event is worth every bit of effort.

Cherry Trees and Walkway, Japan

Photograph by Thomas Simonson, My Shot

This picture was taken in Iwakuni, Japan at the Kintai Bridge. The Cherry Blossom (Sakura) festival had just ended and that is when I decided to go and get some good pictures.

Cherry Tree Swing, Japan

Photograph by Kevin Cozma, Your Shot

Cherry blossoms are synonymous with spring in Japan. This young girl is swinging into spring in a neighborhood park in Japan. I used a wide angle lens angled up in order to make this already high swinger seem sky-high.

Cherry Blossom, Nagoya, Japan

Photograph by Achim Runnebaum, My Shot

This is an early blooming Cherry Blossom shot in Nagoya, Japan. Cherry Blossom time is the most beautiful time in Japan, and one look at this flower is enough to understand why. This was shot at a local park near my house on a bright, spring day with my Nikon D300 and Tamron 90mm 2.8 macro lens.

Cherry Blossoms, Japan

Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita

In full bloom, an ornamental cherry tree branch extends out over a moat at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. The flowering cherry tree, or sakura, is one of the most exalted flowering plants in Japan, where the blossoms' short but beautiful blooming time is a symbol for the evanescence of human life.

Cherry Tree Branch

Photograph by Bhumi Shah, My Shot

To me this image exactly depicts the life of a Cherry Blossom. They bloom for a month and fade away in no time. And you are already waiting to see them in the next season....

In full bloom, an ornamental cherry tree branch extends out over a moat at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. The flowering cherry tree, or sakura, is one of the most exalted flowering plants in Japan, where the blossoms' short but beautiful blooming time is a symbol for the evanescence of human life.

Warbler Amid Cherry Blossoms

Photograph by Raymond K. Gehman

A prothonotary warbler adds a splash of gold to a tableau of cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. The famed cherry trees were given to the U.S. capital city by Japan in 1912. More than 3,000 trees—and 12 different varieties—made the oversea journey from Yokohama to the District of Columbia.

Jefferson Memorial

Photograph by Stephen St. John

Cherry blossoms frame a picture-perfect view of the Jefferson Memorial across the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. According to the National Park Service, there are exactly 1,678 cherry trees surrounding the Tidal Basin—and more than 2,000 others nearby.

Cherry Blossoms, Italy

Photograph by Cotton Coulson

Colorful cherry blossoms grace the fertile foothills of the Alps near Verona, Italy. The blossoms emerge from buds in early spring.

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Galaxies

Antennae Galaxies

Photograph courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

A Hubble Space Telescope image shows unprecedented detail of the Antennae galaxies, an intense star-forming region created when two galaxies began to collide some 200 million to 300 million years ago. The bright, blue-white areas show newly formed stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen, which are colored pink. A similar collision is expected between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearby Andromeda galaxy in several billion years.

Andromeda Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31, is the largest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. This photo, a mosaic of ten images captured by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft in 2003, shows blue-white regions along the galaxy's arms where new stars are forming and a central orange-white area containing older, cooler stars.

Cartwheel Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

This false-color view of the Cartwheel galaxy was created by combining images captured by four space telescopes: Galaxy Evolution Explorer, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers think a smaller galaxy, possibly one of two galaxies seen here (bottom left), passed through the center of the Cartwheel galaxy about 100 million years ago.

Large Magellanic Cloud

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Sheets of debris from an exploded star swirl in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image. At a distance of about 180,000 light years, the LMC galaxy is a relatively close neighbor of the Milky Way. It can be spotted from the Earth's Southern Hemisphere without a telescope.

Milky Way Galaxy

Illustration courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

This 2008 illustration shows a revised look at our galaxy, the Milky Way. Scientists studying infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope determined our galaxy's spiral has two major and two minor arms instead of four major arms, as was previously thought. The demoted arms can be seen as faint trails between the major arms, which emanate from the ends of the orange central bar.

Black Eye Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

The Black Eye or Evil Eye galaxy gets its nicknames from the band of light-absorbing dust that appears in front of the star system's bright center in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Messier 64, as the Black Eye galaxy is more formally known, is thought to have taken on its ominous appearance after it collided with another galaxy perhaps a billion years ago.

Merging Galaxies

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/Vassar

Two merging galaxies located 140 million light-years from Earth resemble a giant celestial mask in this false-color image. The ice-blue eyes are actually the galaxies' cores, and the mask is their spiral arms. The galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, began their gravitational tango about 40 million years ago and will eventually meld into one.

Cigar Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

An infrared image of the Messier 82 galaxy, nicknamed the "Cigar galaxy," shows the formation's central plane in blue and white, with a halo of smoky dust in red. This red cloud, composed of hydrocarbon dust similar to car exhaust, is being blown out into space by the galaxy's millions of young stars.

Spiral Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

This image of the Whirlpool galaxy shows the classic features of a spiral galaxy: curving outer arms where newborn stars reside and a yellowish central core, home to older stars. A companion galaxy called NGC 5195, seen here at the tip of one of Whirlpool's arms (right), has been passing by for hundreds of millions of years and exerting gravitational forces on its larger neighbor.

Nearby Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)

A color-composite image shows the NGC 300 galaxy, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way located about seven million light-years from Earth. In this image, young, hot stars are the blue dots that comprise much of the outer arms. Older stars are in the middle and appear yellow-green.

Elliptical Galaxy

Photograph courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Billows of cosmic dust swirl amid NGC 1316, a giant elliptical galaxy formed billions of years ago when two spiral galaxies merged. Astronomers examined red star clusters within NGC 1316 to determine that the massive galaxy was indeed created by a major celestial collision.

• Messier 81 Galaxy

• Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

  A composite image of the Messier 81 (M81) galaxy shows what astronomers call a "grand design" spiral galaxy, where each of its arms curls all the way down into its center. Located about 12 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation, M81 is among the brightest of the galaxies visible by telescope from Earth.

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Fenomena-Fenomena di Dalam Pikiran Manusia

Sampai saat ini masih banyak mysteri yang belum terungkap dari pikiran kita. Para ahli memang bisa menjelaskan fenomena-fenomena aneh dari pikiran kita tapi masih belum tahu dari mana asal semua itu. Mungkin kalian pernah mengalami beberapa fenomena dibawah ini.

Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu adalah perasaan ketika kita yakin pernah mengalami atau menyaksikan suatu kejadian sebelumnya, kamu merasa peristiwa itu sudah pernah terjadi dan berulang lagi. Hal ini diikuti dengan perasaan familiar yg kuat, takut dan merasa aneh. Kadang “kejadian sebelumnya” itu dikaitkan dengam mimpi tapi kadang juga timbul perasaan yang mantap kalau kejadian tersebut benar-benar terjadi di masa lalu.

Déjà Vécu

Déjà Vécu (dibaca vay-koo) adalah perasaan yg lebih kuat dari Déjà Vu. Kalo Déjà Vu kita merasa sudah pernah melihat kejadian sebelumnya tapi dalam Déjà Vécu kita akan mengetahui peristiwa tersebut jauh lebih detail seperti mengingat bau dan suara-suara pada kejadian tersebut.

Déjà Visité

Déjà Visité adalah perasaan yg tidak biasa dimana kita merasa mengenal suatu tempat padahal sebelumnya kita tidak pernah mengunjugi tempat tersebut. Kalo Déjà vu berhubungan dengan peristiwa sedangkan Déjà Visité berkaitan dengan tempat atau geografi. Nathaniel Hawthorne dlm bukunya yg berjudul “Our Old Home” bercerita saat dia mengunjungi reruntuhan sebuah kastil tiba-tiba merasa klo dia sudah sangat mengenal layout dari kastil yg baru pertama kali dia datangi itu. Belakangan dia sadar kalo bertahun-tahun sebelumnya pernah membaca puisi karangan Alexander Pope yang menggambarkan dengan detail kastil tersebut.

Déjà Senti

Déjà Senti adalah fenomena “pernah merasakan” sesuatu. Kejadiannya contohnya seperti ini : “Kamu merasa pernah mengatakan sesuatu, dipikiran kamu mengatakan, “Oh iya aku ngerti!” atau “Oh iya aku ingat!” tapi 1 atau 2 menit kemudian kamu akan sadar kalau kamu sebenarnya tidak pernah mengatakan apa-apa”.

Jamais Vu

Jamais Vu (tidak pernah melihat/mengalami) adalah kebalikan dari déjà vu. Jadi kamu tidak mengenal sebuah situasi padahal kamu yakin sekali kalau sebelumnya kamu pernah ada disitu. Bingung? Begini gampangnya: kamu mendadak tidak mengenal orang, kata-kata, atau tempat yang sebelumnya kamu tahu. Pada percobaan yg dilakukan Chris Moulin pada 92 orang yg disuruh menulis kata “pintu” 30 kali dalam waktu 60 detik ternyata 68 orang mengalami gejala Jamais Vu yaitu merasa kalau “pintu” itu bahkan bukan merupakan sebuah kata. Ya Jamais Vu didiagnosis karena “kelelahan otak”.

Presque Vu

Presque Vu adalah perasaan yg kuat kalau kamu akan mengalami epiphany. Epiphany sangat jarang terjadi. Presque Vu artinya “hampir melihat” dan sensasinya bisa sangat membingungkan dan aneh.

L’esprit de l’Escalier

L’esprit de l’Escalier (stairway wit) adalah saat kita merasa bisa melakukan sesuatu yg lebih baik pada sebuah situasi setelah peristiwa itu terjadi. Contohnya begini: Kamu seorang pemain sepak bola, saat tendangan penalti kamu menendang bola kesamping kiri dan ternyata berhasil diblok kiper. Tiba-tiba pikiran kamu mengatakan, “Ahh aku sebenernya tadi udah yakin kalo nendang ke kanan pasti gol!” Jadi L’esprit de l’Escalier adalah rasa penyesalan tidak melakukan tindakan yg berlawanan dari suatu peristiwa sebelumnya.

Capgras Delusion

Capgras Delusion adalah fenomena dimana kita merasa yakin kalau keluarga atau teman dekat kita sebenernya adalah orang lain yang wujudnya sama persis. Seperti cerita-cerita di film Alien dimana tubuh manusia diambil alih oleh makhluk luar angkasa agar bisa hidup berdampingan dengan manusia biasa. Khayalan ini biasa terjadi pada penderita schizophrenia atau kelainan mental lain.

Fregoli Delusion

Fregoli Delusion adalah fenomena otak yang sangat jarang terjadi. Orang yg mengalami Fregoli Delusion sangat percaya kalau beberapa orang yang dia kenal sebenarnya adalah satu orang yang melakukan berbagai penyamaran. Fregoli berasal dari nama aktor Italia “Leopoldo Fregoli” yang bisa melakukan merubah penampilan dengan cepat dalam pertunjukannya.

Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia adalah fenomena dimana sesorang kehilangan kemampuan untuk mengenal wajah orang atau benda lain yang seharusnya mereka kenal. Orang yang mengalami ini biasanya menggunakan indera lain untuk mengingat orang tersebut, seperti bau parfum, gaya bicara atau cara berjalan orang itu. Contoh yg paling terkenal dari kasus ini dipublikasikan oleh Michael Nyman dalam bukunya yg berjudul “The man who mistook his wife for a hat”.

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