An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the Universe was 460 million years old. 13bly. This is the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy less than 500 million years after the Big bang. Young galaxies in the early Universe…
Luther Sylvester Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an Americanblues singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas, although some accounts suggest his actual place of birth was Mayflower, Arkansas. Allison was interested in music as a child and during the late 1940s he toured in a family gospel group called…
Floyd Westerman (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007) was a Sisseton Dakotamusician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country music singer, later in his life he became an actor, usually depicting Native American elders in American films and television. He is also credited as Floyd Red Crow Westerman.As a political…
Columbus Calvin “Duke” Pearson Jr. (August 17, 1932 – August 4, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic describes him as having a “big part in shaping the Blue Note label’s hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer.” Pearson was born Columbus Calvin Pearson Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, to Columbus…
Ike Abrams Quebec (August 17, 1918 – January 16, 1963) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career in the big band era of the 1940s, then fell from prominence for a time until launching a comeback in the years before his death. Critic Alex Henderson wrote, “Though he was never an innovator,…
Friday August 16th 6pm Accompaniment for Erev Shabbat Service with Inbal Sharett-Singer, Jayson Rodovsky, Jeff Bailey, Peter Whitman and mick laBriola.
NGC 7727 is a peculiar galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. It harbors two galactic nuclei, each containing a supermassive black hole, separated 1,600 light years apart. This object is located at a distance of 23.3 megaparsecs (76 million light years) from the Milky Way and has a peculiar aspect, with several plumes and streams of…
Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011 Kingston, JA) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the “Gypsy of the Blues” for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John Lee Hooker from 1949 to 1962. After his period of working in tandem with Hooker he…
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