Wikipedia picture of the day on August 26, 2020: Panoramic view of Silver Lake during dusk, Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States. https://ift.tt/2QqyUCU
A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile. via wordpress https://ift.tt/2YuEIiX
What would it look like to circle a black hole? If the black hole was surrounded by a swirling disk of glowing and accreting gas, then the great gravity of the black hole would deflect light emitted by the disk to make it look very unusual. The featured animated video gives a visualization. The video […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 25, 2020: Bac de Roda Bridge of architect Santiago Calatrava in Barcelona. https://ift.tt/34uyZha
In this image, one of the radiation detectors for the Radi-N2 experiment floats in the space station. This device will help researchers explore the radition risk to humans in space. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7ew
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How come the crescent Moon doesn’t look like this? For one reason, because your eyes can’t simultaneously discern bright and dark regions like this. Called earthshine or the da Vinci glow, the unlit part of a crescent Moon is visible but usually hard to see because it is much dimmer than the sunlit arc. In […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 24, 2020: The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument in Kiev was created by Mikhail Mikeshin in 1888. https://ift.tt/31nHHv
Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy’s two spiral arms extending from a pronounced central bar have a hook-like appearance in wide-field images. But this mosaicked close-up, constructed from Hubble Space Telescope and European Southern Observatory data, […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Battle of Crécy. Check it out: https://ift.tt/QgdW64 Summary: The Battle of Crécy was fought on 26 August 1346 in north-east France during the Hundred Years’ War. It resulted in a victory for a greatly outnumbered English army led by King Edward III over the French led by King Philip VI and heavy loss […]