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James Webb captures gorgeous Ring Nebula in stunning detail

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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the stunning and distinctive Ring Nebula — a gorgeous structure of dust and gas located in the constellation of Lyra. This nebula is a favorite among sky watchers as it faces toward Earth so we can see its beautiful structure, and because it is visible throughout the summer from the Northern Hemisphere. It is different from the Southern Ring nebula, which Webb has also imaged, but both are a type

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Troy Maskell trial: CCTV captures alleged petrol station attack on Strathmerton postmaster John Burke before he died weeks later as chilling details are laid bare in court

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Shocking CCTV footage has been released of the chilling moment an elderly postmaster was attacked in a petrol station after he was falsely accused of being a paedophile.

Veteran country postmaster John Burke’s death in hospital allegedly resulted from the attack at a service station in Strathmerton in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley almost three months earlier, a jury has been told.

This week, a Victorian Supreme Court trial began after Troy Maskell, 44, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter over Mr Burke’s

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Florida woman’s doorbell camera captures moment alligator approaches her front porch

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A Florida woman discovered a surprise when she reviewed footage from her doorbell camera after it captured an uninvited visitor.

Lucia, from Wesley Chapel, said she did not regularly look back at the video recorded on her doorbell camera, but found a morning in June to be the exception.

“I initially got the Ring doorbell camera for dog poop bandits in my yard,” Lucia, whose surname was not disclosed by Ring, said in a statement which was shared with Fox

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West Virginia man captures moment a giant fireball explodes in the early morning sky – and NASA says it came from a comet

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West Virginia man captures moment a giant fireball explodes in the early morning sky – and NASA says it came from a comet

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

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An amateur astronomer was snapping images of the supermoon over West Virginia Wednesday morning when a giant fireball exploded in the sky as it fell from space.

Bill Stewart, from Ceredo, was perched on his rooftop to capture the brilliant moon when he

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How our sun will look when it dies: James Webb captures final chapters of a star’s life in never-before-seen detail after snapping ‘extraordinary’ images of the Ring Nebula

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It is a breathtaking image that offers a glimpse of what our sun might look like when it dies.

Taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the picture reveals the intricate and ethereal beauty of the iconic Ring Nebula in never-before-seen detail.

Also known as Messier 57, the mesmerising object is around 2,600 light-years away from Earth and was born from the remnants of a dying star.

It is this expulsion of stellar material that gives the cosmic masterpiece

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A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State

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Tahir Hamut Izgil watched as parks emptied of people, naan bakeries boarded up their windows and, one after another, his friends were taken away.

The Chinese government’s repression of Uyghurs, the predominantly Muslim ethnic minority to which he belonged, had gone on for years in Xinjiang, the group’s ancestral homeland in China’s northwest. But in 2017, it morphed into something more terrifying: a mass internment system into which hundreds of thousands of people were disappearing. Millions lived under intense and

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Landscape photography at its peak! Instagramming photographer captures jaw-dropping shots of mountains and giant rock formations around the world

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‘Mountains hold an air of mystery and intrigue.’ 

So says Arpan Das, whose incredible photographs of mountains capture the essence of their mystery in spellbinding fashion. 

Taken everywhere from the Canadian Rockies to the Swiss Alps, these shots are proving a hit on Instagram, earning Das nearly 40,000 followers to date. The Indian photographer, who is an astrophysicist and data scientist by trade, reveals his interest in mountain photography began when he went on a hiking excursion in the Italian

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Video captures climate activists defacing King Charles III portrait in Scottish National Gallery

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A video captured the moment two climate protesters defaced a portrait of King Charles III at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, before gluing their hands to the floor. 

The footage emerged as the group they are involved with, called “This is Rigged,” released a statement saying it will “continue to take action until the Scottish government vocally opposes all new oil and gas licenses and secure a fair and fully funded transition for workers to renewable energy.” 

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NASA’s Webb telescope captures dazzling shot of actively forming stars | Science | News

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a dazzling image of a pair of actively forming young stars, which is shining light on stellar genesis.

The stars in question — known as “Herbig–Haro 46/47” — are to be found some 1,470 light-years away in the southern hemisphere constellation of Vela, “the sails”.

(Herbig–Haro objects, named after the astronomers who first studied them in detail in the 1940s, are bright patches of nebulae found around newborn stars.)

Webb’s new picture of

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Whistleblower: U.S. Concealing ‘Multi-Decade’ Program That Captures UFOs

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Lawmakers held an explosive hearing on Wednesday on the topic of UFOs, and things got, well, weird.

Appearing before the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee was David Grusch, a former intelligence officer, along with two fighter pilots with firsthand unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) experiences. Grusch was the star, revealing an alleged top-secret multi-decade crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program, only to be denied access and accusing the military of misappropriating funds.

Grusch dropped a bombshell about aircraft with “nonhuman” origins,

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