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SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 123
*The Large Magellanic Cloud cannibalizing smaller galaxies
Scientists have confirmed that the Large Magellanic Cloud has been cannibalizing smaller galaxies. Astronomers already knew that large galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with or cannibalizing smaller galaxies. But now a report in the journal Nature has shown that a small satellite dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud has in turn absorbed an even smaller galaxy in its vicinity.
*NASA’s first test of optical communications technology
NASA is about to test a new optical laser communications system in space for the first time. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration is gearing up for launch next month with the payload now fully integrated into its host spacecraft and ready for its final testing before being lofted into orbit.
*One Web’s constellation passes the halfway mark
One Web have launched another 36 broadband internet satellites into orbit.
*The Science Report
Discovery of the first fossil evidence of modern human remains from the Pleistocene in Sulawesi.
The US State Department provides details on America’s current nuclear weapons stockpile.
A new study suggests horses were first domesticated in the Volga-Don region of Russia.
Skeptic's guide to schadenfreude over COVID deniers who get sick.
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