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Mostly Mute Monday: Lifting The Cosmic Veil

“Thousands of years ago, a massive star near the end of its life exploded in a type II supernova, leaving behind a black hole at its center and sending its outer layers across the surrounding space. Some 1,500 light years away and 5,000–8,000 years later, that debris is 90 light years across. While the entire structure — the Cygnus Loop — is visible in the radio, infrared, ultraviolet (atop) and X-ray, the brightest visible feature is on the western edge: the Western Veil (or Witch’s Broom) nebula.”

Every century or so, possibly even more frequently, a supernova goes off somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. While the explosion itself is only visible for a few months, the remnant sticks around for many thousands of years. Despite the thinness of the bubble walls — just one part in 50,000 of the remnant’s radius — occasionally a fortuitous alignment allows various knotty wisps and tendrils to be seen by our own eyes where the remnant is edge-on to us. Hubble imaging reveals tremendous details, including the science that the fast interior gas could travel from the Earth to the Moon in just 15 minutes!

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Cop Handcuffed 7-Year-Old Boy for No Reason and then He Lost the Key

An angry mother recently posted cellphone video of her 7-year-old son in handcuffs at his elementary school. The officer who detained him was unable to release him because he lost his set of keys to the handcuffs….WTF??

7-years-old Cameron McCadden told his mother that he was handcuffed by police because he kicked a cart and refused to sit down when the officer asked him to, and the school has remained silent about the details of the incident.

In a statement, the Flint Police Department said that the student “appeared intent on injuring himself” and that “The officer used handcuffs to restrain the child to prevent injury to the child or others.” However, Cameron says that he never hit or threatened any of the other children, and no one at the school actually said that he did, the officer just said that he was afraid that the child might hurt someone.

Cameron’s mother, Chrystal McCadden, said that her son has ADHD and while he sometimes has difficulty focusing in class, he is not a violent person and has never exhibited any signs of violent behavior.

“He’s hyper. I’ve gotten these calls about (him) being hyper before. But he is not a violent kid. I’m still trying to get answers,” she said.

To make matters worse, when a distress McCadden got to school to pick up her handcuffed son, the officer cannot find the key.

“You put my son in handcuffs and you didn’t have the key. He wasn’t in here with a gun or knife. There was no other action you could do?” she added.

Flint Police Chief James Tolbert said Friday that he has apologized for the incident.

Now the young boy is likely traumatized, after a simple act of childhood disobedience was turned into a criminal act. smfh.

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Mom takes a major stand against “hurting is flirting”

When Merritt Smith brought her 4-year-old daughter to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, the last thing she wanted her daughter to hear was “I bet he likes you.” Nearly 30,000 people have shared her Facebook post about the incident, with the hospital owning up to the mistake.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Fact-Checks ‘Back to the Future II’

Neil deGrasse Tyson has never been shy about separating fact from fiction, even when it comes to the sometimes fantastical world of Hollywood. (It’s because of the noted astrophysicist that James Cameron corrected the star field in one of Titanic’s most important scenes.) So it’s hardly surprising that, in honor of Back to the Future Day, he took to Twitter to craft a multi-tweet report card on what Back to the Future II got right—and wrong—about what October 21, 2015 would look like.

The biggest takeaways? Hoverboards are coming, double neckties will never be a thing, and Tyson’s not betting on the Cubs in the World Series.

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