Twin Galaxies in Virgo

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Spiral galaxy pair NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 share this sharp cosmic vista with lonely elliptical galaxy NGC 4564. All are members of the large Virgo Galaxy Cluster. With their classic spiral arms, dust lanes, and star clusters, the eye-catching spiral pair is also known as the Butterfly Galaxies or the Siamese Twins. Very close together, the galaxy twins don't seem to be too distorted by gravitational tides. Their giant molecular clouds are known to be colliding though and are likely fueling the formation of massive star clusters. The galaxy twins are about 52 million light-years distant, while their bright cores appear separated by about 20,000 light-years. Of course, the spiky foreground stars lie within our own Milky Way.

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Apple Shows Facebook Who Has the Power in an App Dispute

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Amazon’s Sales Growth Slows, Even as Cloud Business Stays Hot

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inexorable: Word of the day for February 1, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : inexorable , adj :
Impossible to prevent or stop; inevitable. Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting. Adamant; severe.

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Lucy Mission

Hello, Information from NASA NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the agency’s first-ever mission to explore Trojan asteroids.

January 31, 2019
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Twitter Says False Content Is Evolving, and Coming From More Countries, Including the U.S.

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Chip Giant Intel Picks Interim Leader as Permanent C.E.O. After Long Search

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Hubble Accidentally Discovers a New Galaxy

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Despite the vastness of space, objects tend to get in front of each other.

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Sharpless 308: Star Bubble

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance. The massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive star evolution. Fast winds from this Wolf-Rayet star create the bubble-shaped nebula as they sweep up slower moving material from an earlier phase of evolution. The windblown nebula has an age of about 70,000 years. Relatively faint emission captured in the expansive image is dominated by the glow of ionized oxygen atoms mapped to a blue hue. SH2-308 is also known as The Dolphin Nebula.

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Releasing Earnings, Microsoft Stays in Stride, With Cloud Powering the Way

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Firm That Sold Social Media Bots Settles With New York Attorney General

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Maybe Only Tim Cook Can Fix Facebook’s Privacy Problem

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The Closeness Of Different Kinds Of Relationships Over Time, Visualized

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Tiggerish: Word of the day for January 31, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : Tiggerish , adj :
(Britain) (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy. The English author A. A. Milne, who created the character Tigger in his works about Winnie-the-Pooh, died on this day in 1956.

Facebook Gains More Users as Revenue and Profits Climb

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Amazon Users in India to Get Less Choice and Pay More Under New Selling Rules

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Sailing Over the Caribbean From the International Space Station

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Portions of Cuba, the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands are viewed from the International Space Station.

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An Arsenal of Skype, Voice Recorders and FOIAs

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Does Facebook Really Know How Many Fake Accounts It Has?

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How to Save on Your Next Apple Purchase

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Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, is an alluring sight. But the subtle details and extreme ranges in the corona's brightness, although discernible to the eye, are notoriously difficult to photograph. Pictured here, however, using over 120 images and meticulous digital processing, is a detailed wide-angle image of the Sun's corona taken during the Great American Eclipse in 2017 August. Clearly visible are intricate layers and glowing caustics of an ever changing mixture of hot gas and magnetic fields. Hundreds of stars as faint as 11th magnitude are visible behind the Moon and Sun, with Mars appearing in red on the far right. The next total eclipse of the Sun will occur on July 2 and be visible during sunset from a thin swath across Chile and Argentina.

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iPhone FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying Was Flagged to Apple Over a Week Ago

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dehort: Word of the day for January 30, 2019

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(transitive, rare or obsolete) To dissuade.

Apple Says Profits Were Flat, Citing Slump in China

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Huawei and China Have Limited Ways to Answer U.S. Charges

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Falcon 9, Crew Dragon Roll to Launch Pad

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Falcon 9, Crew Dragon Roll to Launch Pad

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How to Disable FaceTime to Avoid Eavesdropping Bug

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Huawei and China Have Limited Ways to Answer U.S. Charges

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FaceTime Bug Lets iPhone Users Eavesdrop, in a Stumble for Apple

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Ultima Thule from New Horizons

Astronomy news update from NASA :
How do distant asteroids differ from those near the Sun? To help find out, NASA sent the robotic New Horizons spacecraft past the classical Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, the farthest asteroid yet visited by a human spacecraft. Zooming past the 30-km long space rock on January 1, the featured image is the highest resolution picture of Ultima Thule's surface beamed back so far. Utima Thuli does look different than imaged asteroids of the inner Solar System, as it shows unusual surface texture, relatively few obvious craters, and nearly spherical lobes. Its shape is hypothesized to have formed from the coalescence of early Solar System rubble in into two objects -- Ultima and Thule -- which then spiraled together and stuck. Research will continue into understanding the origin of different surface regions on Ultima Thule, whether it has a thin atmosphere, how it obtained its red color, and what this new knowledge of the ancient Solar System tells us about the formation of our Earth.

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Uh Oh, Apple. An iPhone Bug Lets FaceTime Callers Eavesdrop.

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Rafflesian: Word of the day for January 29, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : Rafflesian , adj :
Of or relating to Sir Stamford Raffles, a British colonial statesman known for his founding of modern Singapore and British Malaya. (Singapore) Of or relating to an educational institution named after Sir Stamford Raffles. Rafflesian n (Singapore) A current or former student of an educational institution named after Sir Stamford Raffles. Today is the bicentennial of the day in 1819 when Sir Stamford Raffles sailed up the Singapore River and landed on the main island of Singapore, having visited Saint John’s Island the previous day.

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Remembering Space Shuttle Challenger

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NASA lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch. In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’

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caliginous: Word of the day for January 28, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : caliginous , adj :
(archaic or literary) Dark, obscure; murky.

Lyft’s C.E.O. Is Nudged Into the Spotlight in a Time of Need

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looking glass: Word of the day for January 27, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : looking glass , n :
A piece of glass with a reflective surface that one may look into to see an image of oneself; a mirror. A way into a bizarre world. English writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll, the author of the children’s novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), was born on this day in 1832.

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Florida's Secretary Of State Resigned After Blackface Photos Of Him Dressed As A 'Katrina Victim' Surfaced

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emu: Word of the day for January 26, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : emu , n :
(obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius). A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. Today is Australia Day, the national day of Australia.

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

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Vodafone, One of World’s Largest Cell Carriers, Halts Buying of Huawei Gear

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YouTube Moves to Make Conspiracy Videos Harder to Find

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Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

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The Week in Tech: Silicon Valley Hobnobs in Davos

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Moon Struck

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Craters produced by ancient impacts on the airless Moon have long been a familiar sight. But only since the 1990s have observers began to regularly record and study optical flashes on the lunar surface, likely explosions resulting from impacting meteoroids. Of course, the flashes are difficult to see against a bright, sunlit lunar surface. But during the January 21 total eclipse many imagers serendipitously captured a meteoroid impact flash against the dim red Moon. Found while examining images taken shortly before the total eclipse phase began, the flash is indicated in the inset above, near the Moon's darkened western limb. Estimates based on the flash duration recorded by the Moon Impact Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS) telescopes in southern Spain indicate the impactor's mass was about 10 kilograms and created a crater between seven and ten meters in diameter.

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Amazon Is Pushing Facial Technology That a Study Says Could Be Biased

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Intel Searches (and Searches) for a New C.E.O.

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Cullen skink: Word of the day for January 25, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : Cullen skink , n :
A thick soup made of smoked finnan haddock, milk, onions, and potatoes, a local speciality of Cullen in Moray, Scotland. Burns night is held on this date in celebration of the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (born 260 years ago on 25 January 1759), and usually involves Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry.

Microsoft’s Bing Back Online in China After Apparent Blockage

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‘Businesses Will Not Be Able to Hide’: Spy Satellites May Give Edge From Above

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The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class

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Matterhorn, Moon, and Meteor

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Fans of planet Earth probably recognize the Matterhorn in the foreground of this night skyscape. Famed in mountaineering history, the 4,478 meter Alpine mountain stands next to the totally eclipsed Moon. In spite of -22 degree C temperatures, the inspired scene was captured on the morning of January 21 from the mountains near Zermatt, Switzerland. Different exposures record the dim red light reflected by the Moon fully immersed in Earth's shadow. Seen directly above the famous Alpine peak, but about 600 light-years away, are the stars of the Praesepe or Beehive star cluster also known as Messier 44. An added reward to the cold eclipse vigil, a bright and colorful meteor flashed below the temporarily dimmmed Moon, just tracing the Matterhorn's north-eastern climbing route along Hornli ridge.

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Who Posted Viral Video of Covington Students and Protester? Congress Wants to Know

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brumous: Word of the day for January 24, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : brumous , adj :
(literary) Foggy or misty; wintry.

Trump's Lawyer Said There Were 'No Plans' For Trump Tower Moscow. Here They Are

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