Picture of the day for December 21, 2017
Picture of the day on December 21, 2017: Aurora australis dancing over an LED illuminated igloo giving a blue tinge to the color of snow.
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on ice: Word of the day for December 21, 2017
Word of the day is on ice : (idiomatic) Not being used; temporarily unavailable or suspended; on hold. Of an entertainment normally performed on a stage: performed by ice skaters as an ice show. Of a sporting or other contest: in a state of assured victory for the leading contestant. […] The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere falls on this day in 2017.
Article of the day for December 21, 2017
The Article of the day for December 21, 2017 is Musca . Musca (Latin: fly) is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, first appearing on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius published in 1597 or 1598 in Amsterdam. The first depiction in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Musca remains below the horizon for most Northern Hemisphere observers. Many of the constellation's brighter stars are in the Scorpius–Centaurus Association, hot blue-white stars that appear to share a common origin and motion across the Milky Way. These include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Zeta2 and (likely) Eta Muscae, as well as HD 100546, a blue-white Herbig Ae/Be star that is surrounded by a complex debris disk containing a large planet or brown dwarf and possible protoplanet. Two further star systems have bee
on ice: Word of the day for December 21, 2017
on ice , prepositional phrase : (idiomatic) Not being used; temporarily unavailable or suspended; on hold. Of an entertainment normally performed on a stage: performed by ice skaters as an ice show. Of a sporting or other contest: in a state of assured victory for the leading contestant. […] The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere falls on this day in 2017.
Picture of the day for December 21, 2017
Aurora australis dancing over an LED illuminated igloo giving a blue tinge to the color of snow..
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