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The Milky Way: A Cosmic Cocktail of Rum, Raspberries, and Almonds

Source: Firefly The infinitely vast system of celestial wonders that is the cosmos has always been a zone Introduction The infinitely vast system of celestial wonders that is the cosmos has always

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Size comparison of the two black holes imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration: M87*, at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87, and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way. The image shows the scale of Sgr A* in comparison with both M87* and other elements of the Solar System such as the orbits of Pluto and Mercury. Also displayed is the Sun’s diameter and the current location of the Voyager 1 space probe, the furthest spacecraft from Earth. M87*, which lies 55 million light-years away, is one of the largest black holes known. While Sgr A*, 27 000 light-years away, has a mass roughly four million times the Sun’s mass, M87* is more than 1000 times more massive. Because of their relative distances from Earth, both black holes appear the same size in the sky.

Sagittarius A*: The Monster Lurking at the Heart of Our Galaxy

Source: Wikipedia_By EHT collaboration (acknowledgment Lia Medeiros, xkcd) – httpswww.eso.orgpublicimageseso2208-eht-mwe, CC BY 4.0 Introduction Lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is a cosmic giant—the behemoth that, with epic strangeness,

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What’s next after the JWST?

Source: Flickr_future-space-telescopes-after-jwst When you look into the night sky (if your city has a clean and unpolluted environment), you see plenty of twinkling stars in the sky shining alongside the moon. Once

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‘Deep’-faking progress

Source: Firefly Split image- On one side, a doctor analyzes a mammogram on a computer screen. In recent news, scientists from MIT’s CSAIL and Jameel Clinic built and used a deep learning

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