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Lasers Casting a Shadow, First Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy, and TDIH - The Campaign to Make Sean Connery the First James Bond

Lasers Casting a Shadow, First Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy, and TDIH - The Campaign to Make Sean Connery the First James Bond

Update: 2024-11-22
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Scientists reconsider their understanding of shadow after they discover lasers – highly concentrated beams of light – can cast one. And scientists finally have a close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy – and it’s surrounded by something interesting. Plus, on This Day in History, the campaign to make Sean Connery James Bond starts.

'It invites us to reconsider our notion of shadow': Laser beams can actually cast their own shadows, scientists discover | Live Science

Lasers That Cast Shadows? Physics Takes a Surprising Turn

Shadow of a laser beam

Scientists take first ever close-up picture of star outside our galaxy – and see strange structure around it | The Independent

Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy | ScienceDaily

The true story of how Sean Connery became James Bond | The Gentleman's Journal


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Lasers Casting a Shadow, First Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy, and TDIH - The Campaign to Make Sean Connery the First James Bond

Lasers Casting a Shadow, First Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy, and TDIH - The Campaign to Make Sean Connery the First James Bond

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