Thors Helmet Emission Nebula

This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor’s Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet spans about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind — from the bright star near the center of the bubble’s blue-hued region — sweeps through a surrounding molecular cloud. This star, a Wolf-Rayet star, is a massive and extremely hot giant star thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. Cataloged as NGC 2359, the emission nebula is located about 12,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). The sharp image, made using broadband and narrowband filters, captures striking details of the nebula’s filamentary gas and dust structures. The blue color originates from strong emission from oxygen atoms in the nebula. via NASA http://ift.tt/2zS1WkA

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Women Rescued by Navy Defend Their Account of Ordeal at Sea by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal Tuesday, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail in a 50-foot boat, despite …

Published: October 31, 2017 at 03:09AM

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Lawmakers Want More Charges vs. Magnate Known as ‘Codfather’ by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Two U.S. representatives say a fishing magnate known as “The Codfather,” who pleaded guilty to evading fishing quotas, should also be charged under federal fishery laws.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 01:21PM

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Under Armour Chops Forecasts as North America Slide Worsens by REUTERS

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Under Armour Inc slashed 2017 forecasts and reported its first quarterly fall in revenue since going public on Tuesday, as the sportswear firm struggled to make inroads against global rivals Nike and Adidas.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 07:24AM

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Boat Carrying Fleeing Rohingya Muslims Sinks, at Least 4 Die by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A boat carrying up to 45 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning, and a Bangladeshi official said four bodies were recovered.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 03:21AM

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Robert Mueller, Jerome Powell, Halloween: Your Tuesday Briefing by CHRIS STANFORD

By CHRIS STANFORD

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 05:32AM

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17 Shacks and a Piece of Hudson History by TONY CENICOLA, WILLIAM SHANNON and GUGLIELMO MATTIOLI

By TONY CENICOLA, WILLIAM SHANNON and GUGLIELMO MATTIOLI

A cluster of century-old fishing shacks in Hudson, N.Y., once at risk of being demolished, is now being preserved. Step inside one of the shacks and wander around the site.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 05:00AM

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Preserving a Cluster of Fishing Shacks From Hudson’s ‘Forgotten’ Past by WILLIAM SHANNON

By WILLIAM SHANNON

The 17 shacks, once used as year-round residences by fishermen, are considered one of the last remnants of “Old Hudson.” Efforts are underway to save some of them.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 05:00AM

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Four Rohingya Drown as Refugee Boat Capsizes Off Bangladesh by REUTERS

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Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, police said.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 04:03AM

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The Untold Quiet of Kurdish Iraq by KENNETH R. ROSEN

By KENNETH R. ROSEN

Lam Duc-Hien, a Vietnamese photographer, first imagined Iraq to be full of tanks and violence. But after documenting the Kurdish region of Iraq for more than two decades, he found something very different.

Published: October 31, 2017 at 04:00AM

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Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe

Is our universe haunted? It might look that way on this dark matter map. The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters so fast, why gravitational lenses so strongly deflect light, and why visible matter is distributed as it is both in the local universe and on the cosmic microwave background. The featured image from the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium Space Show Dark Universe highlights one example of how pervasive dark matter might haunt our universe. In this frame from a detailed computer simulation, complex filaments of dark matter, shown in black, are strewn about the universe like spider webs, while the relatively rare clumps of familiar baryonic matter are colored orange. These simulations are good statistical matches to astronomical observations. In what is perhaps a scarier turn of events, dark matter — although quite strange and in an unknown form — is no longer thought to be the strangest source of gravity in the universe. That honor now falls to dark energy, a more uniform source of repulsive gravity that seems to now dominate the expansion of the entire universe. via NASA http://ift.tt/2A0FhDC

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APNewsBreak: Lost Sailors Did Not Activate Emergency Beacon by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the two Hawaii women who were lost at sea for five months had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat that was never activated.

Published: October 30, 2017 at 09:42PM

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Tribes in Columbia River Gorge Hit by White House Decision by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Trump administration is neglecting the U.S. government’s obligation to build new homes for Indians whose original abodes were submerged by dams along the Columbia River, members of Congressional delegations from Oregon and Washington state sai…

Published: October 30, 2017 at 08:57PM

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Readers React to Charges Against Paul Manafort by MARIE TAE McDERMOTT

By MARIE TAE McDERMOTT

More than 3,000 New York Times readers reacted to the news of charges against Paul Manafort. Here is a selection of those comments.

Published: October 30, 2017 at 05:40PM

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Loss of Federal Protections May Imperil Pacific Reefs, Scientists Warn by CHRISTOPHER PALA

By CHRISTOPHER PALA

Fisheries officials call the marine national monuments unnecessary, and their boundaries are said to be under review by the Trump administration.

Published: October 30, 2017 at 03:27PM

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José Andrés Fed Puerto Rico, and May Change How Aid Is Given by KIM SEVERSON

By KIM SEVERSON

The chef’s huge effort is just the latest led by cooks, who are showing a more agile, locally based way to feed people after a disaster.

Published: October 30, 2017 at 12:55PM

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American Indian Activist Dennis Banks Dies at Age 80 by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Dennis Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement and a leader of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, has died, his family announced Monday. He was 80.

Published: October 30, 2017 at 10:39AM

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