There’s a new space telescope in the sky: Euclid. Equipped with two large panoramic cameras, Euclid captures light from the visible to the near-infrared. It took five hours of observing for Euclid’s 1.2-meter diameter primary mirror to capture, through its sharp optics, the 1000+ galaxies in the Perseus cluster, which lies 250 million light years […]
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 80 Humidity. 7 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on November 8, 2023: Top view of 201 Dome Mosque, Tangail District, Bangladesh. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Smoking on My Ex Pack. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: “Smoking on My Ex Pack” is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA (pictured) from her second studio album, SOS (2022). It is one of the album’s three rap tracks, built around hard-hitting drums and a sped-up sample of a […]
The spiral galaxy IC 342, located about 11 million light-years from Earth, lies behind the crowded plane of the Milky Way: Dust, gas, and stars obscure it from our view. Euclid used its near-infrared instrument to peer through the dust and study it. via NASA https://ift.tt/e6Nr1fs
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” – William Butler Yeats
“If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.” – Peter Benchley
It moved across the surface of Mars — what was it? A dust devil. Such spinning columns of rising air are heated by the warm surface and are also common in warm and dry areas on planet Earth. Typically lasting only a few minutes, dust devils become visible as they pick up loose red-colored dust, […]
Rain today! With a high of 10C and a low of 10C. 77 Humidity. 8 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on November 7, 2023: Speyer, Germany: view from the tower of the Altpörtel (Old Gate) to southeast over the roofs of the old town to the Gedächtniskirche (left) and to the Saint Joseph Church (centre) behind which the sun is sinking. More Info