How the Magellanic Stream might look like above Reef Beach, Bremer Bay in Western Australia if we could see in UV and x-ray. Credit: Scott Lucchini &Colin Legg. There is a huge halo of gas circling our Galaxy with the mass of a billion Suns. Stripped from the two dwarf […]
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Astronomers have stumbled across a mystery at the heart of the Milky Way: A dense, cold gas shooting out of the region “like bullets.” Researchers aren’t sure what the source of the gas is or how it’s being propelled so fast. They have previously observed flows of hot gas, but […]
A Wednesday night protest in central Merced at the intersection of West Olive Avenue and R Street took a tense turn after two groups exchanged words in the area of the Chevron gas station. Police said no injuries were reported and no arrests were made during the face-off between the […]