Justice League stars support Dakota Access Pipeline protesters

The stars of the upcoming DC superhero movie Justice League offered their support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as the battle to preserve water and land from the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline continues. Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, and Ezra Miller all feature in the video urging people to get involved in the movement. The Dakota Access Pipeline is planned to reach from North Dakota to Illinois, and current plans see it placed less than a mile from the Standing Rock Reservation, raising fears of potential contamination of the tribes drinking water and resources. Sep 8, 2016

Astronomers make rare discovery that could help explain Milky Way formation

The Terzan 5 cluster could shed light on how the Milky Way was formed after an Italian-led team of astronomers found it contained two very different types of stars; some very young and some very old. The 7 billion year age gap between the two different types of stars suggests that star formation in Terzan 5 was not continuous but happened in two very distinct bursts. Sep 7, 2016