HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 18, 2017 (Hindustan Times): The Telangana government will offer US$4,570 for women who marry Brahmin bachelors working as temple priests from next month, a senior state official has said. Arranged marriages for young Brahmin men working as temple priests have become difficult since women and their families choose men with fatter pay cheques, officials said, explaining the reason behind the incentive scheme. In addition to the $4,570 – which will be given as a fixed deposit jointly to the couple – the government will pay $1,523 to fund the wedding ceremony. [HPI note: a priest is unable to conduct his full temple duties until he is married.]
Last month, chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced that all archakas (priests) and other temple employees will get salaries on the first of every month like any other government employee, with a fixed pay scale. ”Their salaries would be revised along with other government employees, whenever there is a pay revision,” he said. Ramanachary said with the implementation of pay scales, the temple priests would get a respectable position in the society. ”And with the present incentive scheme, the eligible bachelors will also get suitable alliances in the coming days,” he added.
LOUISIANA, USA (vox.com): Neutron stars are very strange objects. They’re the leftovers of stars that have collapsed in on themselves (i.e., gone supernova). They’re extremely dense. Imagine an object that has the same mass as the sun but is only 15 miles in diameter. That’s 333,000 times the mass of the entire Earth squished into a ball roughly the size of Manhattan. The pressure inside this object is so immense, the only things that can exist inside it are neutrons (protons fused with electrons).
In a galaxy 130 million light-years away, two of these objects were dancing around one another in orbit, growing closer and closer. Each was so dense and generated so much gravity that it caused tidal bulges on the other. The two collided, and the energy from the impact sent a wave of distorted spacetime across the universe, as well as a massive jet of particles out into space.
When those stars went supernova, even heavier elements were created. But it’s been ”a mystery for a long time where gold and platinum come from,” one researcher explains. Even supernovae are not powerful enough to create those.
It had been theorized that a kilonova
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