Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger

Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence of a close quasar pair housed in a pair of merging galaxies seen when the universe was less than a billion years old, at a redshift of 5.7. The system, designated J2037–4537, is one of only two confirmed quasar pairs at redshift greater…

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Watch Dem Rep Jamie Raskin’s Deer-In-Headlights Reaction To Suggestion To Turn Down Anti-Trump Rhetoric

Watch Dem Rep Jamie Raskin’s Deer-In-Headlights Reaction To Suggestion To Turn Down Anti-Trump Rhetoric

Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin appeared confused when CNN’s Dana Bash asked whether he “thinks twice” about his and his party’s “heated” anti-Trump rhetoric just hours after an apparent third assassination attempt against the president. Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, was in attendance at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner where a…

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Metal detectorists discover rare, Anglo-Saxon coins likely hidden from Vikings

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a classic example of lucky metal detectorists triggering an archaeological investigation, a group of metal detecting enthusiasts in England discovered a rare hoard of early medieval Anglo-Saxon coins in the parish of Bickmarsh, Worcestershire.  Members of Go Detecting…

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