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The story behind these cakes is heartbreaking, but the makers love to make them

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For some children, birthdays are very valuable to celebrate. Jessica Gowers can’t tell you whether her son Riley will make it to the age of 13, 18, or 21. He didn’t think they would see his seventh birthday in March. But, they did. Riley was born with CHARGE syndrome, a complex set of medical problems. Riley with Toy Story cake. ( Provided: Jessica Gowers ) Apart from heart problems, he was deaf, mute, and partially blind. “Riley was born in 2015, we were in the hospital for 11 months. 2016, six months, 2017, six months, 2018, dodging bullets. 2019, four months,” Ms Gowers said. With all the time in the hospital, it’s no wonder Miss Gowers doesn’t have time to bake. Or many other things for that matter. So he called Cake Angels, a team of 2,100 professional decorators across the country who donate incredible custom cakes to children with lifelong or life-limiting conditions. This is not your average banana cake with cream cheese icing. Cakes worth u...

Will we find a new planet? Your burning question about this new image of our cosmos from the NASA space telescope

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NASA has released more images of the galaxy thousands of light years away, captured by their James Webb Space Telescope. And that raises a lot of questions: Will we discover new planets? What would you see from inside one of these galaxies? How big are these pictures really? In an effort to unravel the latest discoveries in our cosmos, we ask you to ask the experts your burning questions. Here’s a bit of what we learned (you can follow the full Q&A here): These galaxies don’t look like this anymore… and may not even exist The first images were released from the James Webb Space Telescope. ( Provided: NASA ) “If the images are billions of years old, can you presume that some of the ‘bodies’ we see don’t exist today? They may look like lots of stars but they are images of the past, if you know what I mean. What’s really there now.” – Nigel Astrophysicist Robin Cook from the University of Western Australia said “abs...