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Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 13:44-52
On the following sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. When…
The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, this barred spiral galaxy is a similar size to our Milky Way at 100,000 light-years across.
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A newly developed 3D inkjet printing system uses computer vision to continuously scan a print surface while adjusting the amount of resin deposited in real time. Here, a robot is “built” layer-by-layer. The black spheres represent the material the printer is depositing, the blue beams represent UV …
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Read More“Every dogma has its day.”
Read Moreadjective: Relating to the sense of taste.
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In northern hemisphere spring,
bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon
April 26, 2024 – Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
Read More“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”
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Before the closing of the day,
Creator, we Thee humbly pray,
That, for Thy wonted mercy’s sake,
Thou us under protection take.
May nothing in our minds excite
Vain dreams and phantoms of the night;
Our enemies repress, that so
Our bodies no uncleanness know.
In this, most gracious Father, hear,
With Christ, Thy equal Son, our prayer;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 13:26-33
When Paul came to Antioch in Pisidia, he said in the synagogue: “My brothers, children of the…
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface.
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In this rendering, researchers at Penn State demonstrated 3D integration — vertically stacking multiple layers of semiconductor devices to pack more silicon-based transistors onto a computer chip — on a massive scale, enabling more energy-efficient computing.
[Research supported by U.S. …
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Read More“Instant gratification takes too long.”
Read Morenoun: The inability to recognize, reproduce, or appreciate music.
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Located some 3 million light-years away in the arms of nearby spiral
galaxy M33,
giant stellar nursery
NGC 604 is
about 1,300 light-years across
Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Feast of Saint Mark – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
Read More“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
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Eruption of the Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, USA
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O Almighty God,
Whose great power and eternal
Wisdom embraces the universe,
Watch over all policemen and
Law enforcement officers everywhere.
Protect them from harm
In the performance of their duty
To stop crime, robbery,
Riots and violence.
We pray, help them keep our streets
And homes safe, day and night.
We commend them to your loving care
Because their duty is dangerous.
Grant them strength and courage
In their daily assignments.
Dear God, protect these brave men …
A reading from the First Letter of St. Peter 1 Pt 5:5b-14
Beloved: Clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for:
God opposes the proud…
Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows Orenburg on April 13, the day river levels peaked. This scene was acquired by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9.
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A fossilized pleurocystitid, a marine organism that went extinct nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem. Mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University engineered a soft robotic replica of a pleurocystitid to …
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Read More“Communism is like one big phone company.”
Read Morenoun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.
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How did a star form this beautiful nebula
In the middle of
emission nebula NGC 6164 is an
unusually massive star
The following is a guest post by Donnie Summerlin, a Digital Projects Archivist at the University of Georgia Libraries in Athens, GA, and by Kerry Huller, a Digital Conversion Specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress. The University of Georgia is the National Digital Newspaper Program awardee for the state of Georgia.
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April 24, 2024 – Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter – Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr—Optional Memorial – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
Read More“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
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Almighty and loving Father,
I thank you for giving St. Gerard to us
as a most appealing model and powerful friend.
By his example,
he showed us how to love and trust You.
You have showered many blessings
on those who call upon him.
For Your greater glory and my welfare,
please grant me the favours
which I ask in his name.
(Mention your needs here…)
And you, my powerful patron,
intercede for me before the throne of God.
Draw near to that throne
and …
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 12:24—13:5a
The word of God continued to spread and grow.
After Barnabas and Saul completed their relief mission, they…
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, or M76, located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The name ‘Little Dumbbell’ comes from its shape that is a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases resembling a balloon that’s been pinched around a middle waist. Like an inflating balloon, the lobes are expanding into space from a dying star seen as a white dot in the center. Blistering ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.
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Mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of a pleurocystitid, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem. The team used a …
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Read More“I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
Read Moreadjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell.
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What created this giant X in the clouds?
It was the shadow of
contrails illuminated from below
April 23, 2024 – Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter – Saint George, Martyr—Optional Memorial – Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr—Optional Memorial – Catholic Daily Reflections from…
Read MoreBlessed Savior, I thank you that this operation is safely past, and now I rest in your abiding presence, relaxing every tension, releasing every care and anxiety, receiving more and more of your healing life into every part of my being. In moments of pain I turn to you for strength, in times of loneliness I feel your loving nearness. Grant that your life and love and joy may flow through me for the healing of others in your name. Amen.
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Children in a boat on the Shari-Goyain River in Ratargul Swamp Forest, Bangladesh. Today is also Bengali new year.
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A reading from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles Acts 11:1-18
The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too…
Behold one of the more detailed images of Earth. This Blue Marble Earth montage—created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite—shows many stunning details of our home planet.
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Confocal imaging reveals the dense network of capillary blood vessels in the lungs that allow oxygen to move into our bloodstream. Researchers have demonstrated that tissues within this complex vascular network can be repaired after being damaged by diseases like the flu and Covid-19 using a …
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Read More“Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.”
Read Morenoun: The awareness of location of parts of one’s body.
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