Monday, November 3, 2025
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Light
The electromagnetic spectrum, with the visible portion highlighted. The bottom graph (Visible spectrum) is wavelength in units of nanometres (nm).
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Spain
Trilingual billboard in Barcelona (detail), showing the initial exclamation mark for Spanish, but not for Catalan (top line) and English
Monday, October 20, 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
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Monday, October 13, 2025
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Friday, September 26, 2025
Earth
A computer-generated image mapping the prevalence of artificial satellites and space debris around Earth in geosynchronous and low Earth orbit
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Earth
Earth's exosphere illuminated creating its geocorona, visible in ultraviolet and viewed by the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph of Apollo 16 in 1972 from the Moon's surface
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Moon
Map of the Moon coloured by the thickness of the crust, with main regions marked.
The KREEP rich magma terrane (hatched), with its most prominent part labeled on the near side (left), the Mare Procellarum KREEP Terrane (PKT).
The South Pole-Aitken Terrane (SPAT) is marked on the far side (right, largest circle).
The 24 crater basins with crustal thinning greater than 200 km (120 mi) are marked (black circles) across both hemispheres.
The rest is the high-thickness Felspathic Highlands Terrane (FHT; red and white).
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Monday, September 22, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Outer Space
Being essentially empty, outer space allows the earliest (redder) galaxies to be viewed without obstruction, as in the Webb's First Deep Field image.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Universe
The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image shows some of the most remote galaxies visible to present technology (diagonal is ~1/10 apparent Moon diameter)
Monday, September 1, 2025
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Afghanistan
Tents of Afghan nomads in the northern Badghis Province. Early peasant farming villages came into existence about 7,000 years ago.
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