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Vatican City's participation at the 2022 Mediterranean Games, held in Oran, Algeria, from 25 June to 6 July 2022, was as guests. It was the Vatican's first appearance in the Mediterranean Games, and its debut in any international multi-sport event. The Vatican's participation was the result of an agreement with the Italian National Olympic Committee in 2019 that formed Vatican Athletics, paving the way for possible participation in the Summer Olympics. An invitation from the organizers of the games in Oran followed the agreement with the Italians. The delegation consisted of one athlete, long-distance runner Sara Carnicelli, and two officials: Melchor Sánchez de Toca Alameda, undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education; and Claudio Carmosino, coach and technical director of Vatican Athletics. Runner Simone Adamoli was supposed to participate but withdrew before the Games started. Carnicelli ran in the half marathon and unofficially placed ninth. (Full article...)

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HMCS St. John's is a Halifax-class frigate of the Royal Canadian Navy. She was commissioned on 24 June 1996 and is the first ship named after the city of St. John's in Newfoundland and Labrador. She is part of a class designed as a general-purpose warship, with a particular focus on anti-submarine warfare. Over her career, St. John's has served with NATO forces, supported operations in Afghanistan, participated in counter-narcotics missions in the Caribbean, provided disaster relief after hurricanes and other emergencies, and undergone modernization to keep pace with evolving maritime threats. This photograph shows St. John's in the harbour of Gdynia, Poland, in 2007.

Photograph credit: Łukasz Golowanow and Maciek Hypś; retouched by Papa Lima Whiskey and Julia W

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The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24) is a dust-free window into distant regions of the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye in dark skies. This 3-panel mosaic spans only a small portion of the star cloud in near infrared and visible light. The field includes the open clusters NGC 6603 (left) and Collinder 469 (center), the dark nebula Barnard 92 (right), and the H-II region Sharpless 41 (green glow). Tonight, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud can be seen all night from most of the world.