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06 fevereiro 2017
The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble
What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy -- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 below and took a dive. Dubbed the Porpoise Galaxy for its iconic shape, NGC 2936 is not only being deflected but also being distorted by the close gravitational interaction. A burst of young blue stars forms the nose of the porpoise toward the right of the upper galaxy, while the center of the spiral appears as an eye. Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142, look to some like a penguin protecting an egg. Either way, intricate dark dust lanes and bright blue star streams trail the troubled galaxy to the lower right. The featured re-processed image showing Arp 142 in unprecedented detail was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope last year. Arp 142 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation, coincidently, of the Water Snake (Hydra). In a billion years or so the two galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.
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Caso Triângulo de Broad Haven completa 40 anos
Já faz quatro décadas que um grupo de crianças testemunhou um OVNI fora de sua escola no País de Gales.
O incidente notável, que continua a ser um dos mais convincentes casos de ovnis já relatados, envolveu um grupo de alunos que viram uma figura vestida de prata emergir de uma “nave amarelo em forma de charuto”, que desembarcou em um campo ao lado da Escola Primária de Broad Haven em 4 de fevereiro de 1977.
Reitor da escola, que não acreditava sua história, depois pediu para que as crianças desenhassem o que tinham visto. Para sua surpresa, os esboços do OVNI e seu ocupante eram todos assustadoramente semelhantes.
O mesmo OVNI foi relatado novamente duas semanas mais tarde, desta vez por alguns dos professores. Um deles até mesmo descreveu a visão de uma “criatura” indo para dentro.
Outro estranho avistamento também foi relatado em abril pela proprietária do hotel Rosa Granville, que foi acordada nas primeiras horas por um barulho estranho e viu uma série de luzes peculiares piscando através de sua janela.
Quando olhou para fora observou o que descreveu como um “pires de cabeça para baixo” em um campo próximo e dois “humanoides sem cara” no chão ao lado dele.
“Era de manhã cedo e a minha mãe foi acordada por um barulho de zumbido que ela pensava ser a caldeira a gás. Uma vez lá embaixo ela percebeu que o barulho era do lado de fora”, disse sua filha, Francis.
“Ela olhou para fora e viu cerca de 100 metros de distância de um objeto oval que ela só poderia descrever como uma “nave espacial com luzes”, pousando lentamente na terra e duas criaturas com ternos de prata.
Nenhuma explicação conclusiva para esses avistamentos já foi encontrada.
Gun salute marks Queen Elizabeth's 65 years on British throne
Gun salute marks Queen Elizabeth's 65 years on British throne:
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Today is the day Queen Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning living monarch, celebrated her Sapphire Jubilee. Great Britain commemorated 65 years since she ascended the British throne.
What’s The Date?
There are at least nine Chinese calendars of various types – some lunar, some solar, some based on the seasons, and one based on yin-yang cycles!
In the 2006 World Cup match between Portugal and The Netherlands, there were 16 yellow cards and 4...
In the 2006 World Cup match between Portugal and The Netherlands, there were 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards in the 90 minute game. The referees averaged a card approximately every 5 ½ minutes! The game holds the record for cards shown at any FIFA-administered international tournament. The dirtiest World Cup match barely finished 1-0, and is known as the “Battle of Nuremburg.”
Potentially Hospitable Enceladus
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Visit: http://ift.tt/2jUgI1z to download a free full-text PDF of Abraham Maslow’s classic article ‘A Theory of Human Motivation.’ A landmark publication in which Maslow provided the first published representation of Self-Actualization at the pinnacle of a hierarchy of human needs
February 6th 1858: Brawl in the House of RepresentativesOn this...
February 6th 1858: Brawl in the House of Representatives
On this day in 1858, in the early hours of the morning, a fight broke out in the U.S. House of Representatives. The altercation began between Laurence Keitt of South Carolina and abolitionist Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania. The two had been engaged in a particularly fraught debate over the Kansas controversy. Since the passage of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, the territory had become a hotbed of sectional violence between Northerners and Southerners who rushed to the area to claim the land as free or slave respectively. Keitt and Grow were debating the merits of the Lecompton Constitution, the pro-slavery document drafted by the fraudulently-elected Kansas convention that President Buchanan wanted Congress to support in order to admit Kansas as a slave state. Keitt had a history of involvement with violence in the halls of Congress. In 1856, he prevented others from coming to the aid of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner as he was savagely beaten by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks. The 1858 conflict began when Grow crossed to the Democratic side of the chamber to consult a colleague, causing Keitt to become incensed and call Grow a ‘black Republican puppy’. Grow shot back calling Keitt a ‘negro-driver’, and with that the House descended into an open brawl. The Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms, wielding the ceremonial mace, failed in their attempts to restore order. The fight finished in a particularly absurd manner, with Wisconsin Representative John Potter pulling the toupee from Mississippi Representative William Barksdale’s head, causing the floor to erupt in laughter when he put it back on the wrong way round.
“Hooray, boys! I’ve got his scalp!”
- What Potter supposedly said when he seized Barksdale’s wig
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