Day: February 5, 2025

Bullseye!

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left.

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A US military plane carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar, marking the Trump administration’s first crackdown on migrants. This precedes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, where immigration will be discussed. India has agreed to cooperate by taking back illegal immigrants if proper documentation verifying their nationality is provided.

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