The core of the Milky Way is rising beyond the Chilean mountain-top La Silla Observatory in this deep night skyscape. Seen toward the constellation Sagittarius, our home galaxy’s center is flanked on the left, by the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope which pioneered the use of active optics to accurately control the shape of […]
Snow today! With a high of 2C and a low of 2C. 92 Humidity. 1 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Wikipedia picture of the day on December 1, 2023: Aerial view from a helicopter of a group of Burchell’s zebras (Equus quagga burchellii), Okavango Delta, Botswana. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Florence Petty. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Florence Petty (1 December 1870 – 18 November 1948) was a Scottish social worker, cookery writer and broadcaster. During the 1900s she undertook social work in the deprived area of Somers Town in North London, demonstrating for working-class women how to cook inexpensive and nutritious […]
A cluster brimming with millions of stars glistens like an iridescent opal in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Called Omega Centauri, the sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is the biggest and brightest of the 150 or so similar objects, called globular clusters, that orbit around the outside of […]
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
On flight day 13 (November 28, 2022) of the Artemis I mission, the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from its home world. Over 430,000 kilometers from Earth in a distant retrograde orbit, Orion surpassed the record for most distant spacecraft designed to carry humans. That record was previously set in 1970 during the Apollo […]
PM Light Rain today! With a high of 3C and a low of 3C. 83 Humidity. 0 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Wikipedia article of the day is British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: British logistics supported the Anglo-Canadian forces in the Western Allied invasion of Germany, the final campaign of the Second World War in Europe. By this time, the 21st Army Group was highly experienced, professional and […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on November 30, 2023: The Blue Marble (2007) More Info