Saints du jour
Voir Saint Valérien. A lire aussi: les saints martyrs Tiburce, Valérien et Maxime(abbaye de Saint Benoît)Illustration: initiale historiée - Saint Tiburce, saint Valérien et saint Maxime (europeana collections). À Rome, au cimetière de Prétextat sur la voie Appienne, les saints martyrs Tiburce, Valérien et Maxime.
Données astronomiques
Dicton du jour
« Si saint Lambert est pluvieux, suivent neuf jours dangereux. »
Citation du jour
Il n'y a pas de honte à préférer le bonheur.
Le 14 avril dans l'histoire
À la une le 14 avril 1926 — il y a 100 ans
Image astronomique du jour
NGC 602 and Beyond
The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region. Fantastic ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602's massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a progression of star formation moving away from the cluster's center. At the estimated distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the featured picture spans about 200 light-years, but a tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in this sharp multi-colored view. The background galaxies are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602. Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (after 1995)