Contrary to common misconception, the medieval church did not teach that the earth was flat, and there are many ways we know that the earth is spherical.
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To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish
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A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 15:1-6
Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to…
adverb: 1. In a straightforward or frank manner. 2. Firmly. 3. Directly. 4. At right angles.
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NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter’s moon Europa. The moon shows strong evidence of an ocean under its icy crust, with more than twice the amount of water of all of Earth’s oceans combined. A triangular metal plate, seen here, will honor that connection to Earth.
The plate is made of tantalum metal and is about 7 by 11 inches (18 by 28 centimeters). It is engraved on both sides and seals an opening in the electronics vault, which houses the spacecraft’s sensitive electronics. The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by the word “water” in 103 languages. The waveforms radiate out from a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for “water.”
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View of Cholatse (6,440 metres (21,129 ft)), Ama Dablam and other Himalayan peaks in Chola Valley south of the Great Himalayan Range in Mahalangur Himal, Nepal, Himalayas. The first documented ascent of Cholatse was made on April 22, 1982 by a team of US climbers.
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“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 15:1-6
Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to…
O great St. Peregrine, you have been called “The Mighty,” “The Wonder-Worker,” because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our …
Read Morenoun: 1. Determining the position of a point by measuring angles to it from two points a known distance apart. 2. Positioning between two extremes, especially in politics.
Read More“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”
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A sequence of images showing the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse from beginning to totality to completion as viewed from Dallas, Texas.
Learn about NSF-supported research that took place leading up to and during the April 8 solar eclipse in the “Science Matters” story “<a …
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The star system GK Per is known to be associated
with only two of the three nebulas
pictured
“What you eventually realize is that your success as a leader is not really yours, it’s the team’s. You’re not successful without the team, so it’s your ability to support, motivate, and guide the team that allows us to accomplish amazing things.” — Dana Weigel, International Space Station Program Manager, NASA’s Johnson Space Center
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The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image of Federal District, Brazil on August 21, 2001. It contains the country’s capital, Brasília, founded on this day in 1960.
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“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.”
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 14:19-28
In those days, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won over the crowds. They stoned…
Glorious St. Joseph,
model of all those who are devoted to labour,
obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously,
putting the call of duty above my many sins;
to work with thankfulness and joy,
considering it an honour to employ and develop,
by means of labour,
the gifts received from God;
to work with order,
peace, prudence and patience,
never surrendering to weariness or difficulties;
to work, above all,
with purity of intention,
and with detachment …
adjective: 1. Marked by extreme economy of expression in speech or writing. 2. Cryptic, ambiguous, or obscure. 3. Marked by ellipsis: the omission of one or more words from a sentence. 4. Relating to or shaped like an ellipse.
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Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1,300 light-years away. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. Webb’s new view focuses on the illuminated edge of the top of the nebula’s distinctive dust and gas structure.
Read More“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
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Local school children attending the “Sun, Moon, and You: Dallas Cotton Bowl Solar Eclipse” event in Dallas, Texas, look to the darkened sky as the solar eclipse reaches full totality on April 8, 2024. NSF, which hosted the event, distributed solar glasses for safe viewing.
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Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month
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Burgos Cathedral was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on October 31, 1984. It is the only Spanish cathedral that has this UNESCO distinction independently, without being linked to the historic center of a city.
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“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 14:5-18
There was an attempt in Iconium by both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their leaders,…
Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May the souls of the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace.
Amen.
Read More“They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”
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An artist’s interpretation of the brain-like computing power behind a new synaptic transistor developed by researchers. Experiments show the transistor goes beyond simple machine-learning tasks to categorize data and is capable of performing associative learning.
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The
Ring Nebula (M57)
is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope
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A female adult little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) searching for food in shallow water. Taken in Limburg (Netherlands).
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First reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 9:26-31
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of…
Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus
while before Your face I humbly kneel and,
with burning soul,
pray and beseech You
to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments
of faith, hope, and charity;
true contrition for my sins,
and a firm purpose of amendment.
While I contemplate,
with great love and tender pity,
Your five most precious wounds,
pondering over them within me
and calling to mind the words which David,
Your prophet, said to You, my Jesus:
“They have …
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A sea otter eats a marsh crab in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary on Monterey Bay in California. A study suggests the recolonization of otters has significantly slowed erosion of creekbanks and marsh edges by controlling the population of crabs, which eat roots and dig into soil.
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Read More“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
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If the Sun is up
but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around,
you might be standing in the Moon’s shadow during a total eclipse of
the Sun
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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
“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”
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buds of a Allium senescens glaucum. Focus stack of 71 photos.
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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…