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‘The Gilded Age’ stars weigh in on fate of the Russells’ marriage

‘The Gilded Age’ stars weigh in on fate of the Russells’ marriage

In the season finale of The Gilded Age, George Russell survives being shot — but it leaves him questioning his marriage and everything he’s held dear. Bertha proceeds with her Newport Ball, welcoming George to her side, but he is preparing to put distance between them. Even with Gladys happily married and Marian and Larry reconciling, it’s too little too …

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49ers news: Junior Bergen was 1 of 3 stars against the Broncos

49ers news: Junior Bergen was 1 of 3 stars against the Broncos

Back when Drew Carey hosted the improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway, he would start every show by saying, “It’s the show where everything is made up and the points don’t matter.” That would be the case for the San Francisco 49ers’ preseason opener against the Denver Broncos on Saturday night at Levi’s Stadium. Denver won the game by …

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When To See The Fabulous Sky Show On Tuesday As ‘Shooting Stars’ Fall

When To See The Fabulous Sky Show On Tuesday As ‘Shooting Stars’ Fall

Topline A “planet parade” is building in the eastern sky before sunrise this week — and the highlight comes on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Best seen about an hour before sunrise, as the peak of the Perseid meteor shower draws to a close, bright planets Jupiter and Venus will appear less than one degree from each other in the eastern sky. …

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A Bridge Of Lost Stars Betrays Two Giant Galaxies In The Midst Of Destruction

A Bridge Of Lost Stars Betrays Two Giant Galaxies In The Midst Of Destruction

Astronomers have captured the first optical evidence of a million-light-year-long bridge of stars being torn from one massive galaxy and pulled into another, a rare galactic interaction occurring in the Abell 3667 galaxy cluster, located about 700 million light-years from Earth. The discovery, published August 5 in The Astrophysical Journal, reveals a dramatic cosmic merger between two galaxy clusters, each …

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Why Stephen Colbert Is Allegedly Losing ‘Support’ From Fellow Stars After The Late Show’s Cancellation

Why Stephen Colbert Is Allegedly Losing ‘Support’ From Fellow Stars After The Late Show’s Cancellation

After CBS announced the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July, visceral reactions were shared by a number of fans as well as celebrities. In terms of stars, disappointed messages from Jimmy Kimmel, Bowen Yang, Jimmy Fallon and more flooded social media. Other big names have continued to express their disagreement with the decision to take Colbert …

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The Universe’s Very First Stars Reveal An Unexpected Cosmic Chaos

The Universe’s Very First Stars Reveal An Unexpected Cosmic Chaos

A groundbreaking set of supercomputer simulations is offering a vivid glimpse into how the universe’s first stars, known as Population III stars, emerged from the chaos of the early cosmos. These simulations, led by Ke-Jung Chen of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and detailed in a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, reveal …

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How to view the Perseids meteor shower — with up to 150 shooting stars per hour — in Colorado’s mountains 

How to view the Perseids meteor shower — with up to 150 shooting stars per hour — in Colorado’s mountains 

The Milky Way reflects on the Dillon Reservoir in Summit County. The Perseid meteor shower is expected to light up the sky with hundreds of shooting stars this August.Colton Sturgeon/Courtesy photo Colorado’s night skies will be filled with hundreds of shooting stars this month as one of the best meteor showers of the year rains down on the Rocky Mountains. …

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Scientists capture bridge of stray stars being sucked from one galaxy to another

Scientists capture bridge of stray stars being sucked from one galaxy to another

Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the first time in such a nearby galaxy, watched as a faint stream of stars is being pulled from one into the other. The observations, made in the galaxy cluster Abell 3667, revealed a faint, million light-year-long bridge of stars connecting …

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