Yankee323
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Yankee323
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The dark side of the moon Katılım Mart 2019
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@AstronomyVibes Good question, we do have much better technology these days
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The B-21 Raider is officially moving into the fast lane. The USAF and Northrop Grumman recently agreed to ramp up B-21's annual production by 25%, backed by roughly $4.5 billion in funding. That takes output from about 7 to around 9 aircraft per year. It is a clear push to reach the 100-aircraft target faster and potentially expand the fleet further.

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Our galaxy isn’t alone in the cosmos.The Milky Way and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), are locked in a slow, inexorable gravitational dance—rushing toward each other at about 110 km/s (roughly 250,000 mph).Right now, from our vantage point on Earth, everything appears serene. Andromeda is still a faint, fuzzy smudge visible to the naked eye on dark nights, lying about 2.5 million light-years away.But the clock is ticking on a truly epic scale.In roughly 4–5 billion years, the two spiral giants are expected to begin their dramatic interaction—though recent 2025 research using the latest Gaia and Hubble data has introduced uncertainty: there's now about a 50/50 chance of a full merger within the next 10 billion years (with only a tiny ~2% probability of a close encounter in the next 4–5 billion years, factoring in influences from the Triangulum Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud). If they do merge, the first close pass could happen around 4.5 billion years from now, with a full coalescence potentially taking longer—perhaps 7–8 billion years or more.Stars, vast as they are, will mostly pass harmlessly by one another—the immense distances between them ensure few actual stellar collisions. Instead, gravity will reshape everything: tidal forces will warp the elegant spiral arms into chaotic tidal tails, trigger bursts of new star formation, and eventually blend the two into a single, giant elliptical galaxy (sometimes playfully called "Milkomeda").Our night sky would transform utterly. Andromeda, once a distant whisper, would swell to dominate the heavens, its glowing arms stretching across the stars—before the merger scatters them into a diffuse, glowing blob.This cosmic slow-motion spectacle is already underway, unfolding on timescales far beyond any human lifetime or even the existence of our species.A reminder that the universe is dynamic, patient, and full of grand reunions.
These stunning artist conceptions and simulations capture what that future merger might look like—from the dramatic approach to the swirling merger aftermath.The future of our galaxy? Not destruction... but transformation on a breathtaking, cosmic scale.

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Oh dear, oh dear… F-35 damaged in combat? If true, #IranWar will be remembered as the war where Fat Amy drew first blood (Yak-130) AND took her first tumble.
CNN@CNN
A US F-35 fighter jet damaged by suspected Iranian fire makes an emergency landing at an US air base in the Middle East, sources say cnn.it/3NOOLMK
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