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  2. Gaia (Jerram) - Wikipedia

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    Gaia exhibited in Hong Kong in 2019 on Lee Tung Street. Gaia is a 2018 inflatable installation artwork by Luke Jerram currently in the library of Trinity Collage.It is a spherical replica of the Earth, with a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft), and named after the Greek primordial goddess Gaia, personification of the Earth.

  3. Golconda (Magritte) - Wikipedia

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    Golconda is a ruined city in the state of Telangana, India, near Hyderabad, which from the mid-14th century until the end of the 17th was the capital of two successive kingdoms; the fame it acquired through being the center of the region's legendary diamond industry was such that its name remains, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a ...

  4. Space art - Wikipedia

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    Space art, also known as astronomical art, is a genre of art that visually depicts the universe through various artistic styles. It may also refer to artworks sent into space. [1] The development of space art was closely linked to advancements in telescope and imaging technology, which enabled more precise observations of the night sky.

  5. Looming and similar refraction phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Looming of the Canadian coast as seen from Rochester, New York, on April 16, 1871. Looming is the most noticeable and most often observed of these refraction phenomena. It is an abnormally large refraction of the object that increases the apparent elevation of the distant objects and sometimes allows an observer to see objects that are located below the horizon under normal conditions.

  6. Floating cities and islands in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, players can download the Aether mod to be able to travel to a dimension of islands floating in the sky. Tales of Symphonia features a floating city named Exire, home to the outcast Half-Elves. Chrono Trigger features the Kingdom of Zeal, a floating island based magical kingdom, encountered in 12000 BCE. City in the Sky, the ...

  7. Flying Balloon Girl - Wikipedia

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    Flying Balloon Girl, also known as Balloon Debate, is a 2005 stencil mural in the West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a young girl holding a bunch of seven balloons floating above the 8 meter-high wall built around the Palestinian enclave near the Qalandia checkpoint. [1] [2]

  8. The Voice of Space - Wikipedia

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    Another publicly displayed version is held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Bells float high in the sky. The jingle bell is a motif that recurs often in Magritte's work. He wrote: "I caused the iron bells hanging from the necks of our admirable horses to sprout like dangerous plants at the edge of an abyss." [1]

  9. Flammarion engraving - Wikipedia

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    In the German-language video series "Von Aristoteles zur Stringtheorie", ("From Aristotle to String Theory"), which is hosted on YouTube and produced by Urknall, Weltall, und das Leben, [22] and features Professor Joseph Gaßner as lecturer, a colored Flammarion engraving was selected as a logo, but the man is peering at a background filled ...