Day: May 24, 2025

Scientists spot high-speed galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away: ‘We hence call this system the cosmic joust’

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Using a telescope in Chile, astronomers have captured a high-speed collision between two galaxies located more than 11 billion light-years away, getting a rare direct glimpse into how the universe’s most luminous sources of energy, known as quasars, can sculpt their surroundings and influence the evolution of galaxies. The new findings describe a galactic battle between the galaxy on the right in the image above, which hosts an actively feeding black hole, a quasar, at its center, and its neighbor on the left, which is being bombarded by intense radiation…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 162 — Lunar Landing Day

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Lunar Landing Day – When the Future Arrived – YouTube Watch On On Episode 162 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the effort to make July 20 a national holiday called “Lunar Landing Day.” If you’re lucky enough to have witnessed the landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, you know what a momentous occasion that was. If you’re younger than a Boomer, you’ve read and heard about that amazing day, but it might not have the impact it did for those who witnessed…

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YgiTK Northern Galaxy Lights star projector review

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Star projectors have become a must-have gadget for a wide range of consumers, captivating everyone from space enthusiasts and movie fans to gamers and party hosts. Users often want to create an immersive environment, to add another dimension to the atmosphere, and these handy little gadgets have given us a means to do this quickly, easily and more affordably than ever before. We’ve reviewed a ton of models, and they all offer different ways to change the vibe of a room. Some just project lasers, some combine lasers and pretty…

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