Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : box , v :
(transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in. (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical. (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap. (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form. (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box. (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object. Today is celebrated as Boxing Day in many countries.

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. It is a large galaxy of over 100 billion stars with well-defined spiral arms that is similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100 (alias NGC 4321) is 56 million light-years distant toward the constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). This Hubble Space Telescope image of M100 was taken recently with the Wide Field Camera 3 and accentuates bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies. Studies of variable stars in M100 have played an important role in determining the size and age of the Universe.

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Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : Charlie Brown tree , n :
A Christmas tree considered unattractive and undesirable by normal standards, often small and sparse. Merry Christmas from all of us at the Wiktionary!

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Astronomy news update from NASA :
"Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow is that pretty!" Soon after that pronouncement, 50 years ago today, one of the most famous images ever taken was snapped from the orbit of the Moon. Now known as "Earthrise", the iconic image shows the Earth rising above the limb of the Moon, as taken by the crew of Apollo 8. But the well-known Earthrise image was actually the second image taken of the Earth rising above the lunar limb -- it was just the first in color. With modern digital technology, however, the real first Earthrise image -- originally in black and white -- has now been remastered to have the combined resolution and color of the first three images. Behold! The featured image is a close-up of the picture that Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders was talking about. Thanks to modern technology and human ingenuity, now we can all see it. (Historical note: A different historic black & white image of the Earth setting behind the lunar limb was taken by the robotic Lunar Orbiter 1 two years earlier.)

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