Look! A cosmic block party 🥳 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured 50 spiral and dwarf galaxies hanging out in our cosmic neighborhood. What looks like a swarm or cloud of stars in the middle is actually a dwarf galaxy! Learn more about your celestial neighbors: https://go.nasa.gov/2ZTNqoT #news #science

Hubble Spots a Swarm of Stars

This Hubble image shows a dwarf galaxy named UGC 685. Such galaxies are small and contain just a tiny fraction of the number of stars in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Dwarf galaxies often show a hazy structure, an ill-defined shape, and an appearance somewhat akin to a swarm or cloud of stars — and U...

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Sony releases a Walkman for its 40th anniversary

The Sony Walkman is back. Sony announced at IFA 2019, one of the leading consumer electronics trade shows that takes place annually in Berlin, that it would be releasing a new version of their iconic portable music player.

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Whale Shark in Thailand Photo by Dan CHARITY — National Geographic Your Shot

The young Whale Shark was swimming in the Gulf of Thailand at a popular dive site called Sail Rock near the island of Koh Pha Ngan. The brief encounter was was captured whilst diving the remote reef which the graceful giant was using as cleaning station, a sort of car wash for big fish.

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Your Shot photographer Dan Charity caught sight of this young whale shark as it was swimming in the Gulf of Thailand at a popular dive site called Sail Rock https://on.natgeo.com/2UAiCZe #photography #nature #news