Chandra Turns Up the Heat in the Milky Way Center

This 2004 image was produced by combining a dozen Chandra observations made of a 130 light-year region in the center of the Milky Way. via NASA https://ift.tt/3qCJUyp

Art Quote of the Day

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Auguste Rodin

Nature quote of the day

“Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” – Don Marquis

Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity

On sol 46 (April 6, 2021) the Perseverance rover held out a robotic arm to take its first selfie on Mars. The WATSON camera at the end of the arm was designed to take close-ups of martian rocks and surface details though, and not a quick snap shot of friends and smiling faces. In the end, teamwork and weeks of planning on Mars time was required to program a complex series of exposures and camera motions to include Perseverance and its surroundings. The resulting 62 frames were composed into a detailed mosiac, one of the most complicated Mars rover selfies ever taken. In this version of the selfie, the rover’s Mastcam-Z and SuperCam instruments are looking toward WATSON and the end of the rover’s outstretched arm. About 4 meters (13 feet) from Perseverance is a robotic companion, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. via NASA https://ift.tt/2U9kGeJ

Showers today!

Showers today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C.
93 Humidity.
13 C currently.
13 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.

Rise Against on Songs That “Take You to Dark Places, But They’ll Never Leave You There”

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Picture of the day for July 1, 2021

Wikipedia picture of the day on July 1, 2021: Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow More Info

Wikipedia article of the day for July 1, 2021

Wikipedia article of the day is John Early (educator). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: John Early (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was a Catholic priest and Jesuit who held several prominent positions in American academia. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States in 1833 and was educated in Maryland and Washington, D.C. After he began ministering, he was appointed the president of the College of the Holy Cross in 1848. In 1852, he founded St. Ignatius Church and Loyola College in Baltimore to educate the lay former students of St. Mary’s Seminary and College. Early left in 1858 to become the president of Georgetown University, which operated through the Civil War despite being commandeered several times by the Union Army. In 1866, Early returned to Loyola College as president, where he restarted the conferral of degrees following the war. He finally returned to Georgetown in 1870 as president and oversaw the first years of the Law Department. He died in 1873.