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NASA: Astronaut Jessica Meir shares photos of squid fishing boats lighting up the Thailand coastline

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The view from space is where even the smallest or most ordinary of activities on Earth become sights to see. Astronaut Jessica Meir shared photos of the view of the Thailand coastline at night.

Meir posted on Twitter some photos of the Thailand coastline, as seen from the International Space Station or ISS. “Caught a breathtaking view of the Thai coastline with the lights of squid fishing boats peppering the waters of the Gulf of Thailand today,” tweeted Meir. The photos were taken during the night side of the planet, which the ISS passes by 16 times a day. The other photos shared by Meir offered a closer look at the lights in Bangkok.

Many people on social media praised the photos, with one saying that it almost looks like it was taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. Another commenter said that the lights are that bright that it could be seen from space.

At the same time, NASA has spotted a major collision that occurred between four galaxies. The agency released images of the incident, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The four galaxy clusters were seen heading towards each other, resulting in one of the biggest objects seen in the universe. It should be noted that these galaxy clusters each have a mass of a hundred trillion times more than the Sun. These galaxy clusters are made up of hundreds or thousands of galaxies merged into one.

The resulting cluster from these four galaxy clusters will be referred to as a supercluster, and NASA said that it would become one of the biggest in the universe. The agency released a statement along with these images, explaining, “A mega-structure being assembled in a system called Abell 1758, located about three billion light-years from Earth. It contains two pairs of colliding galaxy clusters that are heading toward one another.”

The galaxy that Earth is in, called the Milky Way, is predicted to be heading towards its own collision, according to experts. The Milky Way is believed to be colliding with the galaxy of Andromeda, which is the nearest galaxy and is 220,000 light-years across and two times bigger than the Milky Way.

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