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An All-Sky X-Ray Image of the Universe

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Made by the German-Russian eRosita telescope (which is currently mounted on the orbiting Spektr-RG space observatory), this remarkable image—completed last week—is an x-ray map of the universe. The scan was taken approximately 930,000 million miles from Earth’s surface, and “will revolutionize x-ray astronomy,” says Kirpal Nandra of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. The electrifying image records “violent action in the cosmos” which appear …

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Mysteries of the Unseen World

See beyond the limits of human vision with this 3D film from National Geographic, which makes its NY premiere at the American Museum of Natural History

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The current René Magritte exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (which concludes on 12 January), titled “The Mystery of the Ordinary,” showcased surrealist paintings by the Belgian artist that challenged the way the viewer would perceive the “ordinary.” In a similar—and more contemporary—vein, “Mysteries of the Unseen World” is a film that takes the seemingly ordinary and applies advanced imagining technologies to …