APOD: 2023-06-16 - Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea (Narrated by Brian)
Astronomy Picture of the Day - June 16th, 2023 - Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea (Narrated by Brian)
This serene view from the coast of Sweden looks across the Baltic sea and compresses time, presenting the passage of one night in a single photograph. From sunset to sunrise, moonlight illuminates the creative sea and skyscape. Fleeting clouds, fixed stars, and flowing northern lights leave their traces in planet Earth's sky. To construct the timelapse image, 3296 video frames were recorded on the night of June's Full Moon between 7:04pm and 6:35am local time. As time progresses from left to right, a single column of pixels was taken from the corresponding individual frame and combined in sequence into a single digital image 3296 pixels wide. Happy Birthday APOD
Wikipedia Picture of the Day - August 25th, 2023 - Pénélope (Narrated by Brian)
Pénélope is an opera in three acts by the French composer Gabriel Fauré. The French-language libretto, by René Fauchois, is based on Homer's Odyssey. Dedicated to Camille Saint-Saëns, the opera was first performed at the Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo, in March 1913. This lithograph poster was designed by Georges Rochegrosse for the 1913 Paris premiere of Pénélope at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Poster credit: Georges Rochegrosse; restored by Adam Cuerden
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Beautiful News Daily - April 15th, 2020 - LED Bulbs Use Less Energy For The Same Amount of Light (Narrated by Emma)
LED bulbs are just better. We’re finally wising up. 90% of the energy is converted into light, compared to just 10% for traditional incandescents.
Residential lighting was just 5% LED in 2013. Now it’s at least 40% and growing. Illuminating!
Credits: David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net.
License: Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - November 8th, 2022 - Galaxies: Wild's Triplet from Hubble (Narrated by Amy)
How many galaxies are interacting here? This grouping of galaxies is called the Wild Triplet, not only for the discoverer, but for the number of bright galaxies that appear. It had been assumed that all three galaxies, collectively cataloged as Arp 248, are interacting, but more recent investigations reveal that only the brightest two galaxies are sparring gravitationally: the big galaxies at the top and bottom. The spiral galaxy in the middle of the featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope is actually far in the distance, as is the galaxy just below it and all of the other numerous galaxies in the field. A striking result of these giants jousting is a tremendous bridge of stars, gas, and dust that stretches between them -- a bridge almost 200,000 light-years long. Light we see today from Wild's Triplet left about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. In perhaps a billion years or so, the two interacting galaxies will merge to form a single large spiral galaxy.
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Beautiful News Daily - March 1st, 2020 - Extreme Poverty Is Almost Eradicated in the East Asia and Pacific Region (Narrated by Matthew)
It was once the poorest region in the world. But the skyrocketing rise in living standards in East Asia is unparalleled. The number of people living in extreme poverty fell almost a billion between 1990 and 2013.
China and Thailand have become upper-middle income countries, with the vast populations of Indonesia and the Philippines not far behind. Education and economic development have been the main drivers. Plus lower unemployment and greater public investment.
Credits: David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net.
License: Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - July 22nd, 2020 - Marriage A-la-Mode: 4. The Toilette (Narrated by Matthew) The Toilette is the fourth of a series of six oil-...
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - January 11th, 2021 - Ptyas mucosa (Narrated by Brian)
Ptyas mucosa, the Indian rat snake, is a common species of colubrid snake found in parts of southern and southeastern Asia. Growing to a length of 1.5 to 1.9 m (5 to 6 ft), they are very slender, diurnal and semi-arboreal. They inhabit forest floors, wetlands, rice paddies, and farmland, and are frequently found in urban areas where rodents thrive. They are harmless to humans, but are fast-moving and adept at catching the small mammals, birds, amphibians and other reptiles on which they feed, subduing their prey by lying on and suffocating them.
Photograph credit: Augustus Binu
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - October 27th, 2023 - Encke and the Tadpoles (Narrated by Brian)
History's second known periodic comet is Comet Encke (2P/Encke). As it swings through the inner Solar System, Encke's orbit takes it from an aphelion, its greatest distance from the Sun, inside the orbit of Jupiter to a perihelion just inside the orbit of Mercury. Returning to its perihelion every 3.3 years, Encke has the shortest period of the Solar System's major comets. Comet Encke is also associated with (at least) two annual meteor showers on planet Earth, the North and South Taurids. Both showers are active in late October and early November. Their two separate radiants lie near bright star Aldebaran in the head-strong constellation Taurus. A faint comet, Encke was captured in this telescopic field of view imaged on the morning of August 24. Then, Encke's pretty greenish coma was close on the sky to the young, embedded star cluster and light-years long, tadpole-shaped star-forming clouds in emission nebula IC 410. Now near bright star Spica in Virgo Comet Encke passed its 2023 perihelion only five days ago, on October 22.
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - January 21st, 2023 - Rega (Narrated by Amy)
Rega is a private, non-profit air rescue service that provides emergency medical assistance in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It was established in 1952 by Dr Rudolf Bucher, who believed the Swiss rescue organization needed a specialized air sub-section. This image is a sequence photograph, stitched from 207 separate frames, of Rega's rescue helicopter Da Vinci in operation in Stoos, Switzerland.
Photograph credit: Roy Egloff
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - June 17th, 2023 - Redhead (Narrated by Amy)
The redhead (Aythya americana) is a medium-sized species of diving duck. The scientific name is derived from the Greek aithuia, an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin americana, 'of America'. It belongs to the genus Aythya, together with eleven other described species. The redhead and the common pochard form a sister group which together is sister to the canvasback. This redhead was photographed in Central Park, New York.
Photograph credit: Rhododendrites
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