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Vembakottai Excavation - Artistic Jewelry Unearthed
- The 3rd phase of excavations in the Mettukadu area of Vijayakarishalkulam near Vembakottai in Virudhunagar district has been underway since June 18. So far, more than 3,000 artifacts have been found in the excavation, including coral beads, gold coins, copper coins, broken clay figurines, chess pieces, glass beads, round chips, conch shells, and bangles.
- In this case, a conch bracelet, a flint bead used as jewelry by women, and a chip disk have been found in the excavation pit that has been dug. Archaeologists have said that this shows that the ancestors used artistic jewelry.
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today inaugurated various railway projects and laid the foundation stone of several projects through video conferencing. He laid the foundation stone of the Rayagada Railway Division building of East Coast Railway and inaugurated the new terminus of Charlapalli Railway Station in Telangana.
- The Prime Minister inaugurated the new Jammu Railway Division. The Charlapalli New Terminus in Telangana's Metchal-Malkajgiri district has been developed as a new training terminal with a second entrance facility at a cost of about Rs 413 crore.
- A new type of galaxy has been discovered forming at the end of a long, thin stream of interstellar gas in the Milky Way galaxy, about 430 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Leo.
- The new galaxy is thought to have formed due to gravitational interactions between NGC 3785 and its neighboring galaxy. This is a major milestone in understanding the evolution of the Milky Way.
- NGC 3785 is known to have the longest wave tail of any galaxy ever discovered. The tail is extending from the Milky Way. This type of tail is formed by gravitational forces ("wave energies") when two galaxies come close together. Such tails are formed when two galaxies come into close contact, pulling material from each other.
- The galaxy NGC 3785 has caught the attention of researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology. Not only is it the longest-tailed galaxy ever discovered, but scientists have also discovered that a new Milky Way is currently forming at the end of that tail.
