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Departament d'Informàtica i Matemàtica Aplicada
Universitat de Girona

Adreça Postal:	Campus Montilivi, Universitat de Girona Edifici P-4, Despatx 229 17071-Girona (Spain)
Coordenades:	41° 57' 47.8512" N, 2° 49' 53.5080" E
Telèfon:	+34-972.418.762
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Amb tecnologia complexa i avançada

Imatge: Estel V838 Monocerotis conegut com La Nit Estelada
Crèdit: NASA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI-AURA), and ESA
Data: febrer 2004

“View of an expanding halo of light around V838-Mon at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light in 2002, becoming 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun. It was thus one of the most luminous stars in the entire Milky Way. The dust and gas was probably ejected from the star after a previous explosion some tens of thousands of years ago.”
News Release STScI-2004-10

Amb tecnologia estàndard

Imatge: El nostre estel, el Sol, en la primera sortida '07 sobre el Mediterrani
Crèdit: Jaume Rigau
Data: gener 2007

“The Sun is the largest object of the solar system and contains approximately 98% of its total mass. One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun's disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths. The Sun has a temperature of 6,000°C (11,000°F).”
Views of the Solar System (Calvin J. Hamilton) [fets sobre el Sol]

Sense tecnologia

Imatge: La Nit Estelada (oli, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Crèdit: Vincent van Gogh
Data: juny 1889

“The artist wrote to his brother Theo: 'This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big.' Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.”
Text de l'etiqueta de la Galeria

Imatge: Regió H-II a la Nebulosa de l'Àguila (M16-NGC6611) coneguda com Els Pilars de la Creació
Crèdit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
Data: abril 1995

“Eerie, dramatic new pictures from Hubble Space Telescope show newborn stars emerging from 'eggs' but rather dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs). Hubble found the EGGs, appropriately enough, in the Eagle nebula, a nearby star-forming region 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.”
News Release STScI-1995-44

Imatge: La vista del Univers més llunyana mai observada des del Hubble ens revela milions i milions de galàxies tornant de l'inici dels temps
Crèdit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Team
Data: gener 2004

“There are some hundred billion (10E11) galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as stars, 10E11 x 10E11 = 10E22, ten billion trillion. In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Why should we, tucked away in some forgotten corner of the Cosmos, be so fortunate? To me, it seems far more likely that the universe is brimming over with life. But we humans do not yet know. We are just beginning our explorations. The only planet we are sure is inhabited is a tiny speck of rock and metal, shining feebly by reflected sunlight, and at this distance utterly lost.”
Carl Sagan

Imatge: K2, Karakorum, Pakistan (8.612m)
Crèdit: Wikipedia (GNU Free Documentation License)
Data: Desconeguda

“K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, and is thought by many climbers to be the ultimate climb. Its giant pyramid peak towers in isolation, 12,000 feet above the wide Concordia glacial field at the head of the Baltoro Glacier. The sheer icy summit is flanked by six equally steep ridges. Each of its faces presents a maze of precipices and overhangs. K2 was long considered unclimbable. The first successful ascent in 1954 started with over 500 porters, 11 climbers, and six scientists. One of the climbers died of pneumonia after 40 days of raging storms. The final ascent was made by a team of two (Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli) after their oxygen supply had run out, and an emergency descent was made in darkness.”
Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia

Imatge: Tardor a La Fageda d'en Jordà
Crèdit: Jaume Rigau
Data: novembre 2006

“Dins del Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de La Garrotxa, al nord-est de Catalunya, hi ha un bosc de faigs petit, fantàstic, i enigmàtic conegut com la Fageda d'en Jordà. La vegetació creix en un terreny planer damunt d'una colada de lava que prové del volcà Croscat. Fresc a l'estiu, passejar-hi a la tardor és un plaer que ens permet escoltar els sons i veure els colors de la nostra terra.”
Jaume Rigau