Wikipedia picture of the day on November 5, 2023: 125 Bolivares share certificate, issued by the mining company Compañia Minera El Callao on 1. March 1887 in Ciudad Bolívar (Venezuela). Graphic design with underground mining scene, richly ornamented with coats of arms and monograms of the society. More Info
“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.” – Saint Teresa of Avila
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” – John Updike
Rain today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 82 Humidity. 7 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Last Wednesday the voyaging Lucy spacecraft encountered its first asteroid, 152830 Dinkinesh, and discovered the inner-main belt asteroid has a moon. From a distance of just over 400 kilometers, Lucy’s Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager captured this close-up of the binary system during a flyby at 4.5 kilometer per second or around 10,000 miles per hour. A […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on November 4, 2023: St. John Nepomuk Chapel in Hiddingsel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Dark Archives. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Dark Archives is a book by the medical librarian and death-positive advocate Megan Rosenbloom. It focuses on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the binding of books in human skin (reported example pictured). In Dark Archives, Rosenbloom discusses such books and their historical, ethical, and cultural […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ultraviolet view of Jupiter. via NASA https://ift.tt/ziJLUlh
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 79 Humidity. 7 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
That bright beacon you’ve seen rising in the east just after sunset is Jupiter. Climbing high in midnight skies, our Solar System’s ruling gas giant was at its 2023 opposition, opposite the Sun in planet Earth’s sky, on November 2. But only a few days earlier, on October 28, the Moon was at its own […]