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Drag Race Down Under season 2 stars "broken" after elimination

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Below Season 2 spoilers follow. RuPaul’s Drag Race Below queen Faúx Fúr has admitted she was “broken” after she was eliminated in the first episode because of one detail. The contestants for the second season of the Australian spin-off were the first queens to leave the show. A design error in his outfit cost Faúx Fúr his place in the next round of the competition. For a design challenge, the queens had to create a piece made entirely of unconventional materials that represented the Down Under theme. WOW Plus Rewards Related: Philippines Drag Race host announces to chair the panel together Drag Race legend Faúx’s clothes were still original on the front, but her black underwear could be seen from behind through the white mesh skirt. “It was difficult,” said the queen Australian Daily Mail . “I broke down.” She continued: “I was like, ‘Oh my God. Really? You’re going to send me home for black panty details?’ “There are three other girls who are worse than me!”

How Many Stars Are There?

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Whenever we look up at the clear night sky, we can see a lot of stars. From here on Earth, if you happen to be in an area without light pollution, you can see over 10,000 individual stars. That may seem like a lot, but it represents less than 1% of all stars in our galaxy alone. The Milky Way is home to about 100 billion stars, and the Milky Way itself is just one of trillions of potentially other galaxies. Is it possible to estimate the number of stars in the universe? Estimating the Number of Stars Hubble image of a distant galaxy containing billions of stars. Image credit: NASA/ESA If you try to count the stars one by one, it won’t take you long to lose track. Even if you try to count all the stars in the Milky Way, it will take years before you are done. Counting the number of stars in the universe would take millions upon millions of years, so counting them individually would be completely impossible. Instead, astronomers found a way to estimate the number of stars. Since

Harry Styles to Brad Pitt: Male stars throw gender fashion rules out the window

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This week, Hollywood sweetheart Brad Pitt showed it’s not just Millennials who can get away with gender-challenging fashion roles when he wore a skirt to the premiere of his latest film in Berlin. Bullet Train . When asked on the red carpet why she chose to wear a skirt, the 58-year-old simply replied: “A breeze. A breeze.” Brad has previously hinted at wanting men to feel more comfortable in skirts Mode in 2004: “Men will wear skirts next summer. That’s my prediction and statement.” Brad Pitt made a fashion statement by wearing a skirt on the red carpet this week. Photo: Getty Images Brad is promoting his film Troy at that time and wearing the clothes of those times had clearly set off something in him. “This film answers both genders. We went for realism and the Greeks wore skirts all the time,” she said. Brad isn’t the first man in Hollywood to wear a skirt. RELATED In 1998, at the height of his football career and after getting engaged to Posh Spice Victoria, David Beckham was r

The Incredible Shockwave Of Stars Repels Space At 100,000 Miles Per Hour

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Zeta Oviucci once orbited close to another star, before its companion was destroyed in a supernova explosion. Infrared data from Spitzer revealed shockwaves made of material that exploded from the star’s surface and collided with gas on its way. Chandra’s data show X-ray emission bubbles located around the star, generated by gas heated to tens of millions of degrees by the shock wave. Chandra’s data helps tell more about the story of this wild star. credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. Cambridge / c. Cesc Raines et al; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA; Optics: PanSTARRS Zeta Ophiuchi is the only star that may ever have a companion destroyed during a supernova. The supernova explosion sent zeta Ophiuchi into space as seen in the Spitzer data (in green and red) and Chandra (in blue). The X-rays that Chandra discovered came from heating the gas to millions of degrees by the shockwave effect. Scientists are working to match the computational model of this object to interpret the data obtained at diffe

Bulldog gets five-game ban for gouging Titans star's eye

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Canterbury striker Corey Waddell was found guilty of gouging Gold Coast captain Tino Fa’asuamaleaui in the eye and was banned for five games. Key points: Stephen Crichton left the pitch with a concussion immediately after contact Crichton also needs plastic surgery on his ear Finucane says if given the chance to try another tackle, he wouldn’t do anything different The NRL tribunal, made up of Dallas Johnson and Bob Lindner and presided over by Judge Geoffrey Bellew, deliberated for about 15 minutes on Tuesday night before unanimously finding that Waddell’s contact with Fa’asuamaleaui was dangerous and reckless. The match review committee referred Waddell directly to NRL court on charges of dangerous contact, meaning he has no option to enter a defence. Waddell told the court he had tried to knock Fa’asuamaleaui to the ground in a tackle when his arm reached his teammate and into the lock’s forehead. Waddell insisted that he only touched Fa’asuamaleaui’s forehead and nose, doing so uni

Smaller and more powerful magnets can enhance devices that harness the fusion power of the sun and stars

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PPPL main engineer Yuhu Zhai with high temperature superconducting magnet drawing, which can improve the performance of spherical tokamak fusion device. Credit: Kiran Sudarsanan / PPPL Transportation Service Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build powerful magnets that are smaller than ever, helping design and construct machines that can help the world harness the power of the sun to create electricity. without producing the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Scientists have found a way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets made of materials that conduct electricity with little or no resistance at warmer temperatures than before. Such a powerful magnet would fit more easily into the tight spaces inside the spherical tokamak, which is shaped more like a nucleated apple than a conventional donut tokamak, and is being explored as

Studying the first stars through the mists of the early universe

Observing the birth of the first stars and galaxies has been the goal of astronomers for decades. This will explain the evolution of the universe. The Cambridge University team has created a technique that allows them to see and study the first stars through the hydrogen cloud that covered the universe some 378,000 years after the Big Bang. Their methodology, part of the REACH (Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen) experiment, will improve the quality and reliability of observations from radio telescopes that see this important new time in the Universe’s development. Dr. Eloy de Lera Acedo of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory, lead author of the paper, said, “By the time the first stars formed, the Universe was largely empty and made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. Due to gravity, the elements eventually came together due to gravity, and the conditions were just right for nuclear fusion, which formed the first stars. But they are surrounded by a cloud called neutral

Rendezvous causes ripples as swimming stars lick love

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And she sure looks happy. Just like the sponsors who have invested millions of dollars in the two athletes; with broadcasters, women’s magazines and mainstream media off the sports page, it all piles up. Simpson has even launched his own fashion line. The more news about the McKeon-Simpson relationship (which certainly deserves a portmanteau celeb? Codem? Maybe Emody?), the greater the return on sponsor investment, and at a time when competition for corporate endorsements is fierce. After his victory at the Tokyo Olympics, manager McKeon Tony Box revealing sponsorship has changed dramatically since the times Ian Thorpe shaken in the millions, telling PS last year: “There’s more competition and sports and athletes who don’t provide regular content have suffered.” “Content” is one thing that “Emody” will not lack, especially if Simpson’s social media posts are any indication, as is being filmed – allegedly clandestinely – checking his phone to find out he has teamed up Australia for