Wikipedia article of the day is 2nd Red Banner Army. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2XHLnWZ Summary: The 2nd Red Banner Army was a Soviet field army of World War II that was formed at Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East in July 1938. It spent most of the war guarding the border in the Blagoveshchensk area, sending […]
From Earth, Saturn never shows a crescent phase. But when viewed from a spacecraft the majestic giant planet can show just a sunlit slice. This image of crescent Saturn in natural color was taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft in 2007. It captures Saturn’s rings from the side of the ring plane opposite the Sun […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 8, 2020: Shops in Skagway Historic District in traditional wooden style, Alaska, United States. https://ift.tt/2DmOsVrhttps://ift.tt/2DmOsVr
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Wikipedia article of the day is Cyril Bassett. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3knU9D8 Summary: Cyril Bassett (1892–1983) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest combat award for gallantry at the time. He was the only soldier serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Gallipoli campaign of the First World […]
The barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 4907 shows its starry face from 270 million light-years away to anyone who can see it from the Northern Hemisphere. Appearing in this Hubble image to shine brightly below the galaxy is a star that is actually within our own Milky Way galaxy. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-79x
East of Antares, dark markings sprawl through crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard, the obscuring interstellar dust clouds include B59, B72, B77 and B78, seen in against the starry background. Here, their combined shape suggests a pipe stem and […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 7, 2020: Martyrs’ Window in the south aisle of the nave of Freiburg Minster, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Anonymous master, around 1270–80; complemented by Fritz Geiges, around 1922. https://ift.tt/3funVCwhttps://ift.tt/3funVCw
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For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light years from Earth. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-78K