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Hoshinami 星浪 (Wave from Stars)
This piece remarks LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory)'s first detection of gravitational wave created by a binary neutron star system. (case GW170817) Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to this accomplishment in 2017. The artform is Ukiyo-e, a traditional Japanese woodprinting skill. Famous for the iconic "the Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai, Ukiyo-e art is a perfect media capturing dynamic property of relatively abstract subjects. As two giant massive neutron stars spin with each other, ripples in space-time spread out, reaching out to distant curious human beings on earth...
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