Chile passes anti-homophobia law
Chile’s Congress passed an anti-discrimination law Wednesday following the killing of a gay man whose attackers beat him and carved swastikas into his body. The House of Deputies approved the law in a close 58-56 vote, seven years after it was first proposed. The Senate passed the law in November. Continue Reading
What do a billion stars look like?
Astronomers released this week a picture containing more than one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. It combines data from two near-infrared1 telescopes – the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii and the VISTA telescope in Chile – and is the result of a decade-long collaboration by astronomers at the Continue Reading
