From an Astronomy Picture of the Day this week, we have improved guesses of what the Milky Way Galaxy may look like based on a mapping of over a billion of stars by the Gaia spacecraft.

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The Schmidt Ocean Institute has managed to make the first observations of a live colossal squid. It was a tiny juvenile and not the giant organism that an adult colossal squid would be, but that just makes it so much cuter.

It occurs to me that the Chinese government may actually love the tit for tat that is happening with the United States right now regarding tariffs. Not because they like the idea of an economic downturn, but because it would give them the perfect excuse if an economic downturn does happen.

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I understand why so many are appalled by the new tariffs, but I am a little bewildered by the big drop in the stock market.

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The Starliner capsule which was launched to the International Space Station went into orbit with not much problem. However, thruster problems with the capsule led NASA to make the decision that the astronauts who went to orbit in the Starliner capsule would not take a ride on it to return to Earth, and they ended up staying on the space station far longer than originally planned.

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