内容摘要：showed a swath of red for “unhealthy” conditions across the eastern half Minnesota into western Wisconsin and northern Iowa. The map also showed purple for “very unhealthy” across much of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, where the Air Quality Index numbers of 250 and were common, though conditions started to improve slightly by late morning.

showed a swath of red for “unhealthy” conditions across the eastern half Minnesota into western Wisconsin and northern Iowa. The map also showed purple for “very unhealthy” across much of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, where the Air Quality Index numbers of 250 and were common, though conditions started to improve slightly by late morning.

seem greatly exaggerated,” the Finnish-led team wrote in a study appearing in Nature Astronomy.While good news for the Milky Way galaxy, the latest forecast may be moot for humanity.

“We likely won’t live to see the benefit,” lead author Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki said in an email.Already more than 4.5 billion years old, the sun is on course to run out of energy and die in another 5 billion years or so, but not before becoming so big it will engulf Mercury, Venus and possibly Earth. Even if it doesn’t swallow Earth, the home planet will be left a burnt ball, its oceans long since boiled away.Sawala’s international team relied on the latest observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia star-surveying spacecraft to simulate the possible scenarios facing the Milky Way and next-door neighbor Andromeda. Both already collided with other galaxies in their ancient past and, according to many, seemed destined for a head-on crash.

Past theories put a collision between the two — resulting in a new elliptical galaxy dubbed Milkomeda — as probable if not inevitable. Some predictions had that happening within 5 billion years, if not sooner.For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the Milky Way’s movement through the universe. They found that the effects of the neighboring Triangulum galaxy increased the likelihood of a merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda, while the Large Magellanic Cloud decreased those chances.

Despite lingering uncertainty over the position, motion and mass of all these galaxies, the scientists ended up with 50-50 odds of a collision within the next 10 billion years.

“The fate of our Milky Way galaxy is a subject of broad interest — not just to astronomers,” said Raja GuhaThakurta of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study,Young made her 2016 stage debut in Patricia Ione Lloyd’s play “Pretty Hunger” at the Public Theater, a play about a 7-year-old Black girl who didn’t know she was Black. The playwright told her she wrote it with Young in mind.

“Ione Lloyd is one of the people who really made me see myself as an artist,” she says. “She’s the one that kind of set a path for me in a really beautiful way.”Next up for Young is the movie “Is God Is,” which playwright Aleshea Harris is directing from her own 2018 stage play. Sterling K. Brown, Vivica A. Fox and Janelle Monáe are in the cast. Young calls it “a spaghetti Western-meets-Tarantino-meets-the Greeks.” Next summer on Broadway, she’ll star in a revival of “The Whoopi Monologues” opposite Kerry Washington.

After that, who knows? “I don’t know what’s next, but I can’t wait, whatever that is,” she says. “If something comes along, it’s about jumping into the next thing. If there’s life in me, I got to live it.”For more coverage of the 2025 Tony Awards, visit: