Interesting Bits and Pieces

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Hubble Space Telescope snaps stunning view of ethereal ‘Lost Galaxy’.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this sharp view of NGC 4535.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team

NGC 4535 has an engaging nickname: the Lost Galaxy. It’s not actually lost in space, but the moniker comes from how it looks with gear that’s not as fancy as Hubble. “Despite the incredible quality of this image, taken from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 4535 has a hazy, somewhat ghostly, appearance when viewed from a smaller telescope,” the European Space Agency said in a statement Friday.

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A 58-year-old man who spent two weeks lost in Queensland was found on Sunday morning by local MP and grazier, Tony Perrett, beside a dam where he had been living for nearly two weeks.

Robert Weber became lost on his way home from the Kilkivan hotel. He says he lived on waterholes and wild mushrooms and lost 10 kilograms. Mr Weber believes if it wasn’t for thinking of his children, he would’ve given up.

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Big Thongs unveiled as new tourist attraction at country pub in Calen, north of Mackay.

Publican Gavin Butlin said a group of mates were inspired to make the thongs after trying to think of ways to increase tourism to the small town located on the Bruce Highway. Lionel Knott, the creator, went touring around the world recently and left Australia in a pair of thongs coming back in the same pair of thongs, albeit nearly worn through. So thongs it was.

Mr Knott said it was his first sculpture, “They’re basically built from conveyor belt rubber … sourced locally from the mines. I had to cut them out with a Stanley knife, which was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. It was hard material to work with”.

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