Galaxies ‘Dance’ In Stunning New JWST Image | Why Some Cats Scratch Furniture

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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As the James Webb Space Telescope marks two years of operations, NASA unveils a new image of two galaxies interacting. And, new research shows that cats’ tendency to scratch is affected by stress, certain kinds of play, and how active they are at night.

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0:00.0	Are you stressed about your cats scratching your furniture?
0:07.0	Well, scratching is a perfectly normal natural behavior forecast.
0:12.0	It's Friday, July 12th and you guessed it. Today is science
0:16.1	Friday. I'm Cyfry producer Shishana Bucksbaum. Sadly, I've got a lot of experience with this topic.
0:25.8	My cats tore up a hand-woven rocking chair that I spent countless hours making.
0:32.3	They sometimes really test my patients, but a new study explains what drives
0:36.8	some cats to scratch more than others, and we'll give you some tips to keep your cats happy
0:41.6	and save your furniture. We'll get to that story in
0:45.2	just a bit but first here's guest host Kathleen Davis with the biggest science
0:49.0	stories of the week. The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope in history, has been successfully operating in space for two years now.
0:59.0	Since its launch, the telescope has dazzled astronomers and the public with stunning visuals
1:05.7	and new kinds of scientific data about our universe.
1:10.5	And on its two-year anniversary, the telescope continues to return impressive pictures.
1:16.0	NASA released a mesmerizing image today of two intermingling galaxies, nicknamed the Penguin and the Egg.
1:25.0	Here to tell us about that and other top stories in science this week is my guest
1:31.0	Jason Din, climate editor at Atmos. He is based in Washington, D.C.
1:35.6	Jason, welcome back. Thanks for having me. So happy second birthday to the
1:40.4	JWST. Jason, what was in this new image?
1:44.1	Yeah, so this image shows two galaxies that have been interacting with each other for 25 to 75 million
1:50.7	years and they're now connected by this haze of stars and gas.
1:55.0	As you mentioned they're called the penguin and the egg.
1:57.5	It turns out the penguin used to be a spiral of arms but that's kind of unwound.
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