Wikipedia picture of the day on January 16, 2024: Part of the facade of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington, USA More Info

Sometimes, it’s the stars that are the hardest to see that are the most interesting. IC 348 is a young star cluster that illuminates surrounding filamentary dust. The stringy and winding dust appears pink in this recently released infrared image from the Webb Space Telescope. In visible light, this dust reflects mostly blue light, giving […]

Snow today! With a high of -1C and a low of -1C. 84 Humidity. -2 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 15, 2024: Dried out lake in Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is WWJ-TV. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks […]

Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don’t exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland in 2019. The aurora was caused by a hole in the Sun’s corona that expelled charged particles into a solar wind that followed a changing interplanetary magnetic field to Earth’s […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of -1C and a low of -1C. 88 Humidity. -4 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 14, 2024: A panorama showing the Uluguru Mountain Ranges, in Tanzania More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Fleetwood Park Racetrack. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Fleetwood Park was a 19th-century American harness racing track in the Bronx, New York City. The races were a popular form of entertainment, drawing crowds as large as 10,000. The one-mile (1.6 km) course described an unusual shape, with four turns in […]

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it’s an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year, perihelion was on January 2 at 01:00 UTC, with the Earth about 3 million miles closer to the Sun than it was at […]