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Daily Upsider - Thursday, June 26th, 2025
Thursday, June 26th, 2025
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Sometimes, gratitude hits you like a lightning bolt.
Not the kind you plan forâlike promotions or birthdaysâbut the surprise kind. A stranger holding the door when your hands are full. A phone call from an old friend when you needed it most. Or, in one wild true story weâre featuring today⊠a kid who literally saved someoneâs life.
Todayâs issue is all about those momentsâunplanned, unexpected, unforgettable. The ones that remind us the world isnât all noise and chaos. Sometimes, itâs quietly miraculous.
Letâs celebrate the good. You never know when itâll show up.
Todayâs Upside
Earth Sciences
âUnseenâ Colors Captured

Thousands of previously unseen colors captured in the Sculptor Galaxy by ESOâs VLT â Very Large Telescope / ESO
A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy spans 65,000 light-years and was built from 100 exposures taken over 50 hours using the European Southern Observatoryâs Very Large Telescope (ESOâs VLT). By capturing light in thousands of colors across the galaxy, astronomers created a detailed snapshot of star formation and galactic activity. âWe can zoom in to study individual regions where stars form at nearly the scale of individual stars, but we can also zoom out to study the galaxy as a whole,â said co-author Kathryn Kreckel of Heidelberg University.

The Sculptor Galaxyâs ionized gases highlighted by ESOâs VLT â Very Large Telescope ESO
Sculptor lies 1.1 million light-years from Earth and contains around 500 nebulaeâstar-forming regions filled with gas and dust. Older methods typically detected only about 100 such nebulae. These regions emit light across a broad color spectrum, and by studying the wavelengths through spectroscopy, scientists can determine a starâs age, motion, and activity level. âEven after nearly a century of close study, galaxies remain incredibly complicated systems that we struggle to fully understand,â said researcher Enrico Congiu, who led the new Astronomy & Astrophysics study.
A second image from the research highlights how specific wavelengths from elements like hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen appear in distinct colors. In the galaxyâs pink regions, gas glows from radiation emitted by newborn stars. A central cone of white light shows gas being ejected by Sculptorâs supermassive black hole. With the high-resolution spectrograph mounted on ESOâs Southern Hemisphere-based VLT, astronomers were able to examine the galaxy both in intricate detail and as a complete systemâoffering new insights into how galaxies evolve.
Good News
Four-year-old Saves Life

The lifesaver, Kyndal Bradley â credit, family photo
Four-year-old Kyndal Bradley knew how to call her momâbut emergency procedures like dialing 911 had never come up at home. So when a medical emergency unfolded at her Tennessee daycare, no one expected it would be Kyndal who took action. A teacher in the Clarksville classroom collapsed from a seizure and was the only adult present. As the other children froze, Kyndal ran for help. âI told the teacher,â she recalled. âI said the other teacher; she was sick.â
When paramedics arrived, they discovered the teacher had stopped breathing twice. She was rushed to the hospital and is now recovering, according to WSMV. Kyndalâs quick thinking didnât go unnoticed. Daycare staff soon visited the home of her mother, Taylor Moore, to share what had happened. âThey were like, âSheâs our hero for the day,â and Iâm kind of looking like, what happened?â Moore said. âIf she hadnât have gone and got the assistance, this story could have gone a totally different way.â
The moment left Moore stunnedâand proud. âI never thought to introduce what to do if an emergency arises, so it was a shock to me to see that she knew exactly what to do in a situation like that,â she said during a video call, with a beaming Kyndal in her arms.
Lifestyle
Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant

The Moneypoint power station â credit, Charles W Glynn, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ireland is set to become the fifteenth European country to remove coal from its energy mix, marking a major milestone in the countryâs shift toward renewables. The ESB Moneypoint power station in County Clareâthe last facility capable of burning coalâwill now be converted to burn emergency oil reserves. Built in the 1980s to reduce Irelandâs reliance on oil, Moneypoint will exit the wholesale electricity market this June, with all oil use scheduled to end by 2029.
Wind energy is now leading the charge. Ireland generated 11 terawatt-hours of electricity from wind last year, making up 37% of its total electricity supply, according to renewables think tank Ember. âIreland has quietly rewritten its energy story, replacing toxic coal with homegrown renewable power,â said Alexandru MustaÈÄ, campaigner on coal and gas at Europeâs Beyond Fossil Fuels. Still, MustaÈÄ emphasized that the work isnât finished: âThe governmentâs priority now must be building a power system for a renewable future; one with the storage, flexibility, and grid infrastructure needed to run fully on clean, domestic renewable electricity.â
Ireland now joins countries like Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, and the UK in fully phasing out coal, with Spain and Slovakia expected to follow this year. Some countriesâlike Cyprus, Switzerland, and Norwayânever used coal for grid power. Others, including Germany and Romania, have formal exit plans in place, while nations like Poland and Serbia have yet to commit. Irelandâs move signals continued momentum across Europe to transition away from coal and toward cleaner, more sustainable energy systems.
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