The Vatican Secret Archives is the central repository in the Vatican City for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See.   What is the Vatican Secret Archives? The Pope, as Sovereign of Vatican City and having primal incumbency, [ … ]

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef [ … ]

N44 is an emission nebula with superbubble structure located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way in the constellation Dorado.   What is the emission nebula N44? Originally catalogued in Karl Henize’s “Catalogue of H-alpha emission stars [ … ]

A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to that of the Sun, while its volume is [ … ]

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1905.   What is The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope? Following Scouts Attacked by a Tiger the previous [ … ]