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Anonymous ID: 05b007 April 21, 2025, 8:22 a.m. No.22937191   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7257 >>7266

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

April 21, 2025

 

Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb

 

Is this one galaxy or two? Although it looks like one, the answer is two. One path to this happening is when a small galaxy collides with a larger galaxy and ends up in the center. But in the featured image, something more rare is going on. Here, the central light-colored elliptical galaxy is much closer than the blue and red-colored spiral galaxy that surrounds it. This can happen when near and far galaxies are exactly aligned, causing the gravity of the near galaxy to pull the light from the far galaxy around it in an effect called gravitational lensing. The featured galaxy double was taken by the Webb Space Telescope and shows a complete Einstein ring, with great detail visible for both galaxies. Galaxy lenses like this can reveal new information about the mass distribution of the foreground lens and the light distribution of the background source.

 

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Anonymous ID: 05b007 April 21, 2025, 8:31 a.m. No.22937200   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7231

Giant Evangelion appears in Hamamatsu city hall through early 2026

Apr 20, 2025 - 19:51

 

A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 statue made its appearance in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a local government tourism campaign through next February in the hope of cashing in on the city's connection to the popular anime film.

The purple giant humanoid robot from the film "Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time" will tower over the lobby of Hamamatsu city hall in Shizuoka Prefecture until late January next year, including on weekends and public holidays.

 

About 170 people lined up in front of the municipal headquarters to see the statue ahead of the public opening at 10:30 a.m.

During the opening ceremony, the city firefighters' music band played the popular theme song of the anime.

 

The local initiative, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the original TV series, follows Evangelion-themed campaigns launched in recent years by Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Co. and Enshu Railway Co. centered around the city's Tenryu Futamata Station – a model for Village-3 in the 2021 movie.

The station has since been inundated with "anime pilgrims" eager to see a 3.6-meter-tall "Spear of Longinus," a giant extraterrestrial weapon central to the story, installed in 2023 at its train depot.

Evangelion-themed trains also run at certain times through the station.

 

As part of Hamamatsu's new campaign, the two local railway operators began sales of one-day unlimited ride passes featuring images of the main character Shinji Ikari and fellow pilot Kaworu Nagisa.

Visitors can complete a stamp rally covering 21 spots along the Tenryu Hamanako and Enshu railway lines, with cutouts of Evangelion characters placed at certain locations. Those who collect 10 stamps will receive an exclusive sticker.

 

"Through Evangelion, I want people to rediscover the appeal of Hamamatsu's tourism and culture," said Mayor Yusuke Nakano, while also expressing interest in partnering with Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture and Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Hakone served as the model for the postapocalyptic fortified city of Tokyo-3, while Ube is the hometown of series director Hideaki Anno. Both locations have also run Evangelion-related tourism campaigns in the past.

 

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/5b8ba0dc33cf-giant-evangelion-to-loom-in-hamamatsu-city-hall-until-2026.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZm3bm3kznA