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Curiosity Weekly

Measure Your Sleepiness, What Happens When Galaxies Collide, and Space Junk Damage

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about what it looks like when galaxies collide with one another; how to measure how sleepy you are using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale; and how much damage space junk the size of a pencil eraser can do.

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0:00.0

Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.4

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.3

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.3

Today you'll learn about what it looks like when galaxies collide with one another, a scale

0:11.8

for measuring how sleepy you are,

0:13.7

and how much damaged space junk the size of a pencil eraser can do.

0:17.6

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:19.5

The Milky Way Galaxy is on a crash course

0:22.3

with the Andromeda Galaxy.

0:24.4

Dun-ton-ton, but it's not going to happen for several billion years.

0:28.4

So not too much to worry about.

0:30.0

What's exciting though is that astronomers just found a bunch of other merging galaxies

0:34.5

that'll help them predict what will happen when the big collision comes to our

0:38.3

corner of the galaxy.

0:39.4

I like this story because not only is it merging galaxies it's merging black holes.

0:45.6

So it's super epic.

0:47.8

Such a fan of black holes.

0:49.5

And this has to do with black holes because at the center of many galaxies is a super massive

0:55.0

black hole. Super massive black hole. Yeah there's probably a song there's got to be a

1:00.8

super massive black hole song right? It's by Muse. Oh yeah cool I've seen him perform a lie

1:07.4

Yeah, it was in the twilight soundtrack

1:09.3

Muse actually has a lot of cosmological themes in their songs, right? That's a thing.

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