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      From - Space. Com     By -   Robert Lea    Edited by - Amal Udawatta (Left) An image of the sky in the direction of the cosmic web detection (Right) The image shows the diffuse gas (red) contained within the cosmic filament connecting two galaxies (yellow stars), extending across a vast distance of 3 million light-years.   (Image credit: Joseph DePasquale/Space Telescope Science Institute/Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca)   For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the cosmic web through direct measurements. Astronomers have imaged a spectacular thread in the cosmic web, connecting two actively forming galaxies that existed when the universe was just 2 billion years old. Both galaxies at hand are home feeding  supermassive black holes. The  cosmic web  stretches for an incredible 3 million light-years, making it about 3...

    From -Sky & Telescope By - Bob King  Edited by- Amal Udawatta         The dipper-shaped Pleiades cluster (M45) is also called the Seven Sisters and named for the mythological seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The young cluster is between 75 and 150 million years and lies 444 light-years from Earth. Jared-Bowens The Pleiades star cluster is one of the night sky's best-known astronomical sights. Alluring to the naked eye, it's even more amazing through binoculars or a small telescope, both of which reveal dozens more stars. As the cluster plows through space at 6 kilometers per second (13,400 mph), its hot, youthful suns illuminate a happenstance interstellar cloud, turning it into a gossamer nebula that temporarily enshrouds the stellar bunch. Additional treasures lie within its bounds: There are also about a half-dozen double and multiple stars within the Pleiades. You might already be familiar with 2.9-magnitude Alcyone, a choice triple st...

  From BBC News   By-  David McKenna   Edited by- Amal Udawatta    Hulton Archive/Getty Images Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "really lends herself to operatic treatment", according to producers Margaret Thatcher's time as prime minister might not seem like the most obvious inspiration for an opera, but for some she is a diva. The Rest is History podcast co-host and historian Dominic Sandbrook is working with composer Joseph Phibbs to produce a two-act show entitled Mrs T. As well as covering her time in Downing Street, the opera aims to explore the Iron Lady's character and personality away from the public gaze. "I feel she really lends herself to operatic treatment. She was a very theatrical character, in many ways," Phibbs told the BBC. The opera has been described as "an intimate exploration of one of the most polarising and influential figures in British politics". PA Media Historian Dominic Sandbrook said the opera was not a politica...