Wikipedia picture of the day on August 24, 2021: Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv. Today is the Independence Day of Ukraine. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Chandler’s Ford shooting. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Chandler’s Ford shooting was an attempted robbery on 13 September 2007 in which two men were shot dead by officers of London’s Metropolitan Police while robbing a cash-in-transit van. The Met had been tracking a gang who had stolen an estimated £500,000 […]

Space Station Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency checked the fit of his U.S. spacesuit. via NASA https://ift.tt/3j9TXbT

Is that one galaxy or three? Toward the right of the featured Hubble image of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 3827 is what appears to be a most unusual galaxy — curved and with three centers. A detailed analysis, however, finds that these are three images of the same background galaxy — and that there […]

Rain today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 90 Humidity. 16 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia article of the day is Edvard August Vainio. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929) was a Finnish lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus Cladonia, and, in particular, his study of the classification and form and structure of lichens in Brazil made […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 23, 2021: Max Niedermeier practicing for the 2018 FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship finals at Inzell, Germany. More Info

“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” – Emily Carr

Spectacular explosions keep occurring in the binary star system named RS Ophiuchi. Every 20 years or so, the red giant star dumps enough hydrogen gas onto its companion white dwarf star to set off a brilliant thermonuclear explosion on the white dwarf’s surface. At about 5,000 light years distant, the resulting nova explosions cause the […]

Rain today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 87 Humidity. 18 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.