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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  3. Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

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    These depend, apart from the wallpaper group, on a number of parameters for the translation vectors, the orientation and position of the reflection axes and rotation centers. The numbers of degrees of freedom are: 6 for p2; 5 for pmm, pmg, pgg, and cmm; 4 for the rest. However, within each wallpaper group, all symmetry groups are algebraically ...

  4. ESA Optical Ground Station - Wikipedia

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    to survey space debris in different orbits around the Earth, to conduct surveys and follow-up observations of near-Earth objects as part of ESA's Space Situational Awareness programme, and; to make scientific astronomical night observations. It is equipped with a cryogenically cooled mosaic CCD-Camera of 4k×4k pixels.

  5. GIF - Wikipedia

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    The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.

  6. Desktop environment - Wikipedia

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    A desktop environment typically consists of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers and desktop widgets (see Elements of graphical user interfaces and WIMP). A GUI might also provide drag and drop functionality and other features that make the desktop metaphor more complete. A desktop environment aims to be an intuitive way for the user ...

  7. Ultra HD Blu-ray - Wikipedia

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    Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD, UHD-BD, or 4K Blu-ray) [2] [3] is a digital optical disc data storage format that is an enhanced variant of Blu-ray. [4] Ultra HD Blu-ray supports 4K UHD (3840 × 2160 pixel resolution) video at frame rates up to 60 progressive frames per second, [ 4 ] encoded using High-Efficiency Video Coding . [ 4 ]

  8. 4K resolution - Wikipedia

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    The term "4K" is generic and refers to any resolution with a horizontal pixel count of approximately 4,000. [4]: 2 Several different 4K resolutions have been standardized by various organizations. The terms "4K" and "Ultra HD" are used more widely in marketing than "2160p".

  9. Parsec - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is currently the only star in its cubic parsec, [c] (pc 3) but in globular clusters the stellar density could be from 100–1000 pc −3. The observational volume of gravitational wave interferometers (e.g., LIGO , Virgo ) is stated in terms of cubic megaparsecs [ c ] (Mpc 3 ) and is essentially the value of the effective distance cubed.