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The test will begin at 11 a.m.
The sirens are located in the Loch Lomond, Cobb Mountain, Anderson Springs and Middletown areas.
This test is being conducted to assure the functionality of the warning sirens. During the test, additional messaging will be sent out as a reminder.
Should there be an active response to local fires in progress, the test will be canceled and will be scheduled for the following month.
The sheriff’s office encourages community members to make sure their email addresses are entered into the LakeCoAlerts system.
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Sorry, Charlie Brown, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as the "Greater Pumpkin," that looks like a Halloween decoration tucked away in a patch of sky cluttered with stars.
What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile is a snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies.
The entire view is nearly 109,000 light-years across, approximately the diameter of our Milky Way.
The overall pumpkin-ish color corresponds to the glow of aging red stars in two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 2292 and NGC 2293, which only have a hint of spiral structure.
Yet the smile is bluish due to newborn star clusters, spread out like pearls on a necklace, along a newly forming dusty arm. The glowing eyes are concentrations of stars around a pair of supermassive black holes.
The scattering of blue foreground stars makes the "pumpkin" look like it got all glittery for a Halloween party.
What's going on in this pumpkin-like pair?
If you mix two fried eggs together, you get something resembling scrambled eggs. The same goes for galaxy collisions throughout the universe. They lose their flattened spiral disk and the stars are scrambled into a football-shaped volume of space, forming an elliptical galaxy.
But this interacting pair is a very rare example of what may turn out to result in a bigger fried egg – the construction of a giant spiral galaxy. It may depend on the specific trajectory the colliding galaxy pair is following. The encounter scenario must be rare because there's only a handful of other examples in the universe, say astronomers.
The ghostly arm making the "smile" may be just the beginning of the process of rebuilding a spiral galaxy, say researchers. The arm embraces both galaxies. It most likely formed when interstellar gas was compressed as the two galaxies began to merge. The higher density precipitates new star formation.
The dynamic duo hides out 120 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major, so it is seen far behind the star-filled foreground plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Therefore, it's a difficult area to pinpoint far-flung distant background galaxies from the plethora of stars seen in the field.
The galaxy pair was similar to objects tagged by the citizen-science project Galaxy Zoo, where volunteers go hunting for oddball-looking galaxies.
Astronomer William Keel, of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, included several of these in the "Gems of the Galaxy Zoos" Hubble program, which is observing several kinds of rare galaxies during short gaps between other scheduled Hubble observations. The Hubble image brought out new details of the close encounter.
Keel speculates that the ultimate destiny for this pair will be to merge into a giant luminous spiral galaxy like UGC 2885, Rubin's Galaxy, which is over twice the diameter of our Milky Way. Hubble has caught a snapshot of the groundbreaking early stages of a galactic makeover.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.
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Lt. Corey Paulich said Timothy Michael Monte Jr., 32, was located on Friday and is safe.
His family had told Lake County News that Monte did not return home on Monday, Oct. 19, following a trip to the Clearlake Walmart.
Two days later, the gray Lexus that belongs to his girlfriend, which he had driven to Clearlake, was returned to the Lucerne home he shares with his girlfriend and grandmother.
Paulich said he was reported missing to the sheriff’s office this past Monday.
Monte’s family members were in Lake County on Friday to post fliers about his disappearance.
Paulich told Lake County News he did not have further details about how and where Monte was located, and as of Friday evening family members also didn’t have additional information.
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LUCERNE, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the family of a missing Lucerne man are asking for the community’s help in locating him.
Timothy “Mike” Michael Monte Jr., 32, was last seen by family members at the Lucerne home he shared with his grandmother, girlfriend and children on Monday, Oct. 19.
His family said Monte, a local DJ, left Lucerne to travel to the Clearlake Walmart at around 8 p.m. that day. He did not return.
Monte was reported to be driving a gray Lexus that belongs to his girlfriend.
That vehicle showed up at his grandmother’s home two days after he was last seen – on Wednesday, Oct. 21. His family said the key was broken off in the ignition.
Lt. Corey Paulich of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Monte was reported missing to the agency this week, on Monday, a week after he was last seen.
Family members said they will be in Lake County on Friday to post fliers in an effort to locate him.
His family also is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to locating Monte.
Monte’s family described him as being Black and Mexican, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 210 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
He has several tattoos, including praying hands on his left shoulder, the name “Francis” on the left side of his chest and a grim reaper on his right shoulder. Family members said he also has a scar on his forehead hairline.
Anyone with information about Monte is asked to contact the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 707-263-2690.
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