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1 day ago · Saint Columba of Iona. Feast Day: June 9 – CNA. On June 9, the Catholic Church commemorates the sixth-century Irish monk and missionary Saint Columba of Iona, also known as St. Columcille. One of Ireland’s three patron saints (together with Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid), he is also sometimes called the “Apostle of the Picts” for his ...
2 hours ago · Symbols for the Sun and Moon The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance. The symbol for the Sun in late Classical (4th ...
1 day ago · Gamma Centauri (γ Cen) is a binary star system located 130 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. With a combined apparent magnitude of 2.17, it is the fourth brightest point of light in Centaurus, after Rigil Kentaurus (Alpha Centauri), Hadar (Beta Centauri), and Menkent (Theta Centauri). The star system has the traditional name ...
4 days ago · June’s Night Sky Notes: Constant Companions: Circumpolar Constellations, Part III. by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. In our final installment of the stars around the North Star, we look ahead to the summer months, where depending on your latitude, the items in these circumpolar constellations are nice and high. Today ...
4 days ago · The images of the constellations were based almost line for line on the engravings in the Bayer Atlas and it is here, in the Uranometria, that the source of Orion’s Grand Central confusion lies ...
5 days ago · Discover one of the tallest waterfalls in Tasmania, St Columba Falls. Includes a guide on the hike and the best viewpoint locations.
4 days ago · The Zodiac of Dendera is a large carved stone slab showing the constellations of the zodiac. When Denon first discovered the Temple of Hathor at Dendera in January, 1799, he happened into a little stone chapel on the roof, where he found a large circular planisphere, or zodiac.
