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Hubble Seeks Clusters in Lost Galaxy

Handout Photo shows NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) across and its location above Earth’s light-obscuring atmosphere, Hubble can easily observe dim galaxies like NGC 4535 and pick out features like its massive spiral arms and central bar of stars. This image features NGC 4535’s young star clusters, which dot the galaxy’s spiral arms. Glowing-pink clouds surround many of these bright-blue star groupings. These clouds, called H II (‘H-two’) regions, are a sign that the galaxy is home to especially young, hot, and massive stars that blaze with high-energy radiation. Such massive stars shake up their surroundings by heating their birth clouds with powerful stellar winds, eventually exploding as supernovae. The image incorporat

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Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) across and its location above Earth’s light-obscuring atmosphere, Hubble can easily observe dim galaxies like NGC 4535 and pick out features like its massive spiral arms and central bar of stars. This image features NGC 4535’s young star clusters, which dot the galaxy’s spiral arms. Glowing-pink clouds surround many of these bright-blue star groupings. These clouds, called H II (‘H-two’) regions, are a sign that the galaxy is home to especially young, hot, and massive stars that blaze with high-energy radiation. Such massive stars shake up their surroundings by heating their birth clouds with powerful stellar winds, eventually exploding as supernovae. The image incorporates data from an obse

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(SpotNews)CHINA-LIAONING-TIELING-RIVER EMBANKMENT-BREACH (CN)

(240806) -- TIELING, Aug. 6, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Rescuers work to repair a breached embankment near Fanjia Village in the city of Tieling, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Aug. 6, 2024. A section of a river embankment was breached on Tuesday due to rising water levels from continuous heavy rains in northeast China's Liaoning Province, authorities said. The breach, about 18 meters long, was found at around 4:40 a.m. at an embankment of the Wanghe River, a tributary of the Liaohe River, near Fanjia Village in the city of Tieling, where rainfall in the flood season has reached 2.4 times that in previous years, according to the relevant department of the city. A total of 395 residents from 190 households at risk from the breach have been evacuated, with no casualties reported. The breach has flooded nearly 1,500 mu (100 hectares) of farmland. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Pan Yulong)

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(SpotNews)CHINA-LIAONING-TIELING-RIVER EMBANKMENT-BREACH (CN)

(240806) -- TIELING, Aug. 6, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Rescuers work to repair a breached embankment near Fanjia Village in the city of Tieling, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Aug. 6, 2024. A section of a river embankment was breached on Tuesday due to rising water levels from continuous heavy rains in northeast China's Liaoning Province, authorities said. The breach, about 18 meters long, was found at around 4:40 a.m. at an embankment of the Wanghe River, a tributary of the Liaohe River, near Fanjia Village in the city of Tieling, where rainfall in the flood season has reached 2.4 times that in previous years, according to the relevant department of the city. A total of 395 residents from 190 households at risk from the breach have been evacuated, with no casualties reported. The breach has flooded nearly 1,500 mu (100 hectares) of farmland. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Pan Yulong)

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(SpotNews)CHINA-LIAONING-TIELING-RIVER EMBANKMENT-BREACH (CN)

(240806) -- TIELING, Aug. 6, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- An aerial drone photo shows rescuers working to repair a breached embankment near Fanjia Village in the city of Tieling, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Aug. 6, 2024. A section of a river embankment was breached on Tuesday due to rising water levels from continuous heavy rains in northeast China's Liaoning Province, authorities said. The breach, about 18 meters long, was found at around 4:40 a.m. at an embankment of the Wanghe River, a tributary of the Liaohe River, near Fanjia Village in the city of Tieling, where rainfall in the flood season has reached 2.4 times that in previous years, according to the relevant department of the city. A total of 395 residents from 190 households at risk from the breach have been evacuated, with no casualties reported. The breach has flooded nearly 1,500 mu (100 hectares) of farmland. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Pan Yulong)

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Earthquake drill held in central Japan

A large-scale drill in preparation for a massive earthquake in the Pacific Ocean's Nankai Trough is held at Nagoya port in Nagoya, central Japan, on Nov. 11, 2023. The drill, with about 1,300 participants, was based on the scenario that a magnitude-9 quake struck the region and a tsunami of up to 2.4 meters hit at the port.

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Earthquake drill held in central Japan

A large-scale drill in preparation for a massive earthquake in the Pacific Ocean's Nankai Trough is held at Nagoya port in Nagoya, central Japan, on Nov. 11, 2023. The drill, with about 1,300 participants, was based on the scenario that a magnitude-9 quake struck the region and a tsunami of up to 2.4 meters hit at the port.

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Couple dies after falling into pit dug for birthday prank

KAHOKU, Japan - Police investigators on Aug. 28, 2011, probe the site where a 23-year-old man and his wife, also 23, died the previous night after falling into a pit that she and her friends dug as a birthday surprise for the husband on the beach in Kahoku in Ishikawa Prefecture. Hiroki Demura and his wife Risa died of suffocation from being buried with sand after accidentally falling into the pit -- some 2.4 meters in width and 2.5 meters in depth -- together.

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Christmas tree made of ice displayed at Tokyo's Roppongi

TOKYO, Japan - A Christmas tree made of ice is displayed in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Dec. 23. The tree, 2.4 meters high and illuminated in blue, red, yellow and other colors, will be on display until midnight Christmas Eve.

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Art collection gives U.S. heartland taste of Chinese culture

STORY: Art collection gives U.S. heartland taste of Chinese culture DATELINE: Sept. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: KANSAS CITY, U.S. CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibits at the museum 2. various of visitors STORYLINE: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri collects over 7,500 high-quality Chinese works, ranging from ceramics to furniture, and from paintings to sculptures. Since its launch in 1933, the museum has been actively collecting, preserving, studying, and exhibiting works of Chinese art. And its Chinese art collection contains masterpieces in various historical stages. The most admired Guanyin of the South China Sea, measuring 2.4 meters high, 1.68 meters wide and 1.1 meters thick from China's Liao (907-1125) or Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), was carved from the trunk of a single poplar tree. The larger-than-life sculpture has created a sense of calm and warmth in the hall. An exhibition on the theme of "Lively Creatures - Animals in Chinese Art" was held at the mus

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CHINA-FUZHOU-SEAFOOD-FISHERIES-EXPO (CN)

(220610) -- FUZHOU, June 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on June 10, 2022 shows a giant grouper, in length of 2.4 meters and weight of 150 kilograms, displayed during the China (Fuzhou) International Seafood & Fisheries Expo held in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province. The China (Fuzhou) International Seafood & Fisheries Expo opened here on Friday. More than 300 enterprises and institutions from over 10 provinces and cities across China participated in the expo. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

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Turkey inaugurates 1st bridge over Dardanelles Strait

STORY: Turkey inaugurates 1st bridge over Dardanelles Strait DATELINE: March 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of 1915 Canakkale Bridgevarious of the bridge under construction STORYLINE: Turkey's 1915 Canakkale Bridge, the longest midspan suspension bridge that spans the Dardanelles Strait and connects Europe and Asia at the western end of the Marmara Sea, was inaugurated on Friday in Turkey's northwestern province of Canakkale. The bridge, the name of which refers to the Canakkale Naval Victory achieved on March 18, 1915, during World War I, stretches 2,023 meters between its towers, symbolizing the year 2023, the centenary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. The bridge, which costs 2.5 billion euros (2.76 billion U.S. dollars) to build, will generate 5.3 billion euros in economic output, create 118,000 jobs and generate 2.4 billion euros in revenue for Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the inauguration ceremony. The bri

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170 kg halibut auctioned at Sapporo wholesale market

SAPPORO, Japan - A huge halibut, 2.4 meters long and weighing 170 kilograms, is auctioned April 11 at the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market in Sapporo, Hokkaido. The fish, caught April 10 off Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, was sold for 119,000 yen. Photo provided by Sapporo Chuo Suisan company.

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Christmas tree made of ice displayed at Tokyo's Roppongi

TOKYO, Japan - A Christmas tree made of ice is displayed in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Dec. 23. The tree, 2.4 meters high and illuminated in blue, red, yellow and other colors, will be on display until midnight Christmas Eve. (Kyodo)

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Couple dies after falling into pit dug for birthday prank

KAHOKU, Japan - Police investigators on Aug. 28, 2011, probe the site where a 23-year-old man and his wife, also 23, died the previous night after falling into a pit that she and her friends dug as a birthday surprise for the husband on the beach in Kahoku in Ishikawa Prefecture. Hiroki Demura and his wife Risa died of suffocation from being buried with sand after accidentally falling into the pit -- some 2.4 meters in width and 2.5 meters in depth -- together. (Kyodo)