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- | Astronomers discover ‘fossil galaxy’ 3 billion light-years away [[https://tripscan.live/|трипскан | + | Their five minute airplane chat led to lasting love [[https://trip36.win/|tripscan личный |
- | A galaxy that has remained unchanged for 7 billion years — a rarity in the universe — has been observed by astronomers, offering a glimpse into cosmic history | + | On a recent transatlantic flight from Florida to London Heathrow, married flight attendants Hunter Smith-Lihas |
- | These space oddities are galaxies that, after an initial phase of intense star formation, escape their expected evolutionary path. While other galaxies expand and merge with one another, the fossil galaxies remain virtually inactive. Like celestial time capsules, they provide a snapshot into the ancient universe and allow astronomers | + | The two men smiled at each other, |
- | The newly discovered fossil galaxy — named KiDS J0842+0059 — is about 3 billion light-years from Earth, making it both the most distant and the first of its kind observed outside the local universe, the region of space closest to Earth that is approximately 1 billion light-years in radius. It was found by a team of astronomers led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), using high-resolution imaging from the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. | + | This shared smile was fleeting, but spoke volumes. And later, when Hunter |
- | “Relic galaxies, just by chance, did not merge with any other galaxy, remaining more or less intact through time,” said Crescenzo Tortora, a researcher at INAF and first author of a study on the finding published May 31 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “These objects are very rare because, as time goes on, the probability to merge with another galaxy naturally increases.” | + | |
- | Very compact, very massive | + | “I met you for five minutes on the airplane when I wasn’t even supposed |
- | Astronomers believe that the most massive galaxies form in two phases, according | + | |
- | “First, there’s an early burst of star formation, a very quick and violent activity, | + | “You never think when you meet someone for the first time like that, that it’d go this far. So it’s kind of surreal. And it honestly just makes you so happy, because you’re like, how did I get here?” |
- | The second phase, she added, is a protracted process during which galaxies that are in close proximity start interacting, merging | + | Airplane meeting |
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+ | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, right, met while working for Spirit Airlines | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | Hunter Smith-Lihas | ||
+ | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to meet John, who was there on a layover. Here's the couple | ||
+ | Long distance: John and Hunter lived in different cities, but traveled to meet one another when they could. Here they are on a trip to Los Angeles during this period. | ||
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+ | Surprise trip: For Hunter' | ||
+ | New adventures: After just over a year of long distance, John and Hunter moved in together and both moved to Detroit. "It was an adjustment," | ||
+ | Puerto Rico proposal: On a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hunter asked John to marry him. "It all clicked, like the rest of my life is coming together perfectly," | ||
+ | Honeymooning: | ||
+ | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to meet John, who was there on a layover. Here's the couple that evening. | ||
+ | Photos: How two flight attendants fell in love on an airplane | ||
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+ | How Hunter and John got here was via a series of unexpected moments and decisions starting six years ago, in 2017. | ||
- | The telltale feature of fossil galaxies is that they are very old, compact | + | Back then, Hunter was just known as Hunter Smith. He was in his early 20s and working as a gate agent for Spirit Airlines. He’d aspired to work in aviation since he’d starting watching a flight attendant who chronicled her job on YouTube. |
- | “They contain (billions) | + | “I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is the best job ever. I definitely want to do something like this,’” Hunter tells CNN Travel today. |
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+ | After he graduated college, Hunter secured a gate staff position in his home city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The role was the perfect foot in the aviation door. | ||
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+ | Working the airport gate, Hunter interacted with hundreds, if not thousands, of people each day. As a sociable person, he always enjoyed the conversations — however brief — with travelers | ||
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+ | But Spirit Airlines’ employment pool was so big he rarely met the same flight attendants twice. | ||
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+ | One morning, one of Hunter’s gate attendant coworkers asked if he could pass on some papers to the captain of a soon-to-depart Spirit flight, which was heading to Orlando, Florida. | ||
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+ | This kind of task, says Hunter, was “typically | ||