Look in the northeast on these June evenings, near the star Vega. You’ll see Rastaban and Eltanin, the eyes of Draco the Dragon. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/rastaban-and-eltanin-belong-to-constellation-draco…
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What Are the Best Free Streaming Services?
An anonymous reader shares some free streaming media options: There’s over 10,000 public domain audiobooks at LibriVox.org, created by volunteers reading public domain works. (If you’ve got time, why not record yourself reading your own favorite public domain poem or novel?) And there’s also a lot of free audiobooks (and ebooks) available through Hoopla, a free “digital media” service that’s partnering…
Use Big Dipper to locate Hunting Dogs
The ancient stargazers saw the Hunting Dogs – aka Canes Venatici – as nipping at the heels of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/use-the-big-dipper-to-locate-the-hunting-dogs…
What America’s NSA Thinks of Python
“Now budding Python developers can read up on the National Security Agency’s own Python training materials,” reports ZDNet:
Software engineer Chris Swenson filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA for access to its Python training materials and received a lightly redacted 400-page printout of the agency’s COMP 3321 Python training course. Swenson has since scanned the documents, ran OCR…
Stolen painting reappears after 23 years, in the same gallery where it was taken
A famous painting by Gustav Klimt that went missing 23 years ago turned up in the walls of the gallery from which it appears it was stolen from. No one knows who took it. Source: https://www.livescience.com/stolen-gustav-klimt-painting-found-in-gallery-walls.html
Eric Raymond Stumped By Documentation’s ‘Reproduction’ Problem
Eric Raymond has been working on a tool called reposurgeon for editing version-control repository histories — those “risky operations that version-control systems don’t want to let you do.” But this led to some interesting thoughts about documentation: “Why doesn’t reposurgeon have easy introductory documentation” would normally have a simple answer: because the author, like all too many programmers, hates writing documentation,…
Twenty years of discoveries changing story of human evolution
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/archaeological-discoveries-changing-story-of-human-evolution…
Moon in Taurus on January 6, 7 and 8
These next three nights – January 6, 7 and 8, 2020 – the bright waxing gibbous moon shines in front of the constellation Taurus the Bull. However, it will be difficult to envision the starlit figure of the Bull on these moonlit nights. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-in-taurus-on-january-6-7-and-8…
Polar stratospheric clouds over Sweden
Northern Europe had an amazing display of these clouds this week. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/polar-stratospheric-clouds-sweden-dec-2019…
Aries? Here’s your constellation
How to see Aries the Ram in your night sky, plus info about this constellation in astronomy history and mythology. Source: https://earthsky.org/constellations/aries-heres-your-constellation…