A star is born

This is not a Hollywood star

This is a NASA photo which shows an area of space where new stars (like our Sun) are being born. Makes me feel so small.

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Toronto skyline

The CN Tower makes those skyscrapers look minute

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, but it is not the capital (that’s Ottawa).

And it has this amazing skyline dominated by one of the world’s highest structures, the CN Tower, which is more than 600m tall.

Stonehenge

The midsummer sun rises at Stonehenge

On the longest day of the year, June 21st, the sunrise at Stonehenge occurs at about 4.30am.

If you stand in the centre of the ring of standing stones then you will see the sun rise directly over the Heelstone, which is a little outside the circle

Whether Stonehenge was an ancient clock or calendar, or even a burial ground or whatever is not known for sure, but the sunrise on the summer solstice is quite a magical moment.

New Ball for the World Cup

The old ones are best

There has been a lot of argument about the new World Cup ball.

Let’s change it and go back to the old one.

Funny story: anything OK

Me to students: “For this exercise you can use dictionaries, phones, in fact anything is OK”

Student: “Please tell me the answers”.

Me: “Eh??”

Student: “You said anything is OK”!

Me: “Oh!!??”

Skye’s Sky

Taken by my friend last week

A beautiful sky over the Isle of Skye in Scotland, a great range of colour.

Horizontal rainbow

No arc en ciel here

There are no tricks here. This is a horizontal rainbow I saw in Izu a few weeks ago.

And it was not raining, and I was facing the sun.