Wikipedia article of the day is Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II dates to the 6th century BC and was unearthed in 1855 near Sidon, in modern-day Lebanon. It contained the body of a Phoenician king of Sidon and is one of only three Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi found outside […]
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains […]
“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.” – Mary Schmich
“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.” – Anne Bronte
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years “tall,” the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring […]
Showers today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 75 Humidity. 11 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
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Wikipedia article of the day is Quine–Putnam indispensability argument. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument reasons that we should believe in abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets because mathematics is indispensable to science. One of the most important ideas in the philosophy of mathematics, it is credited to W. V. Quine […]
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!” – Lord Byron
“Art depends on luck and talent.” – Francis Ford Coppola