Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer gave no thought to her own safety as she raced to save a little girl from drowning in an icy pond. And body cameras captured the intense rescue! The word "hero" gets thrown around far too often today. People‚ for some reason‚ will describe an athlete‚ a vainglorious actor or a morally bankrupt‚ power-hungry politician as a "hero." In those and most other instances‚ the term most certainly does not apply. RELATED: 8-Year-Old Disappears Into Frozen Pond So Police Officer Starts Punching The Ice With All His Might However‚ there are a few frequent occasions when someone exhibits such courage‚ bravery and fearlessness that "hero" is the best and only way to describe them. Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer is the definition of a hero. She jumped into an icy pond to save an 8-year-old girl who was drowning. "There wasn't a whole lot of thinking‚" Michelle said. "It was just‚ you know‚ jumping into action." Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer Hailed As A Hero The water when Michelle jumped in was only 40 degrees. However‚ at the time of her heroic actions‚ Michelle states that she didn't even notice the cold water. It's clear that her only concern was saving the child's life. RELATED: Police Perform Frozen Pond Rescue After 9-Year-Old Chases His Football Out Onto Ice "It's kind of interesting‚" Michelle said. "On scene‚ I didn't remember it being cold‚ but‚ you know‚ as you watch the video‚ I'm sure that people noticed that my breathing changed." After reaching the child‚ Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer grabbed her and pulled her out of the water and onto the shore. Michelle admits that she did not think the young woman was going to make it. But then something miraculous happened. The young woman started making noises. It was a loud cry‚ a moaning sound. The little girl did survive the scary situation. Praise God for Michelle's heroic actions! She saved that young woman's life and didn't twice before jumping into a near-freezing pond to pull her to safety. YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: 2 Kids Sledding Fly Right Into Icy Pond And That's When 5 Boy Scouts Jump Into Action There are still heroes in society‚ and Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer is one of them. John 15:13 "Greater love has no man than this‚ that a man gives up his life for his friends." WATCH: Vermont State Trooper Saves Little Girl From Drowning In Icy Water  LISTEN: Stranger Finds a Newborn Baby Inside a Plastic Bag | TobyMac Shares the Story of ‘Faithfully’ h/t: Godtube Featured Image Credit: YouTube The post Vermont State Trooper Wastes No Time Risking Her Life to Save Drowning 8-Year-Old appeared first on GodUpdates.

If you explore the night sky it won’t be long before you realise there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium but reflects 30% of the starlight in infrared wavelengths. The dust plays a key role in the formation of stars and the evolution of the Galaxy. A team of astronomers have attempted to map the dust out to a distance of 3000 light years and have just released the first 3D map of the dust in our Galaxy.  The scattering and absorption of starlight by dust particles (extinction) allows us to explore dust clouds in three dimensions. It also tends to absorb shorter wavelengths from stars causing the stars obscured by the cloud to appear more red in colour. By analysing this it is possible to estimate the extent of dust extinction along our line of sight. When the distance measurements to the stars are taken into account it is possible to build a 3D map of dust clouds. In understanding the distribution and collecting data for the model generation‚ Gaia has been a game changer. Gaia is the European Space Agency astrometry observatory that has been mapping the distances and positions of stars across the Galaxy. Since its launch 10 years ago it has collected data from 1 billion stars‚ mostly within a few kiloparsecs of the Sun (1 parsec is 3.26 light years).  Knowing the position of stars accurately enables the reduction of errors in the dust extinction modelling. The combination of stellar astrometry data‚ phototometric‚ extinction and spectroscopic data‚ now was the perfect time to investigate the three dimensional distribution of dust in the Milky Way.  Artist impression of ESA’s Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way (Credit : ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC) The study‚ by lead author Gordian Edenhofer from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics was recently published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The team present a three dimensional dust map that goes further and deeper into space with greater resolution than ever before. The processing technique used enabled the team to investigate dust distribution beyond 1 kiloparsec whilst also resolving nearby dust clouds with parsec scale precision.  They were able to present the map of dust out to a distance of 1.25 kiloparsec in greater resolution than before. This was thanks to their use of distance and extinction estimates from previous studies that had lower uncertainties than other data sets. Their map has an angular resolution of up to 14 arc minutes and parsec-scale distance resolution. It’s always pleasing to find a result that is in agreement with previous studies and existing 3D dust maps. But even more pleasing when it goes further by improving the area of space covered and with a higher spatial resolution than before. As is often the case – and one of the reasons I love science – the map is publicly available online and can be queried and viewed via a Python package by anyone interested. The team hope that the maps will be used for further studies into the distribution of dust and the nature of the interstellar medium. Source : A parsec-scale Galactic 3D dust map out to 1.25 kpc from the Sun The post Astronomers Build a 3D Map of Dust Within Thousands of Light-Years appeared first on Universe Today.

ICE in Boston arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien convicted of sexually assaulting a child under age 14. He was released from custody without notice by the Gloucester District Court after they ignored ICE’s detainer request. The former mayor of Gloucester‚ Mayor Thaken‚ was happy to treat the city as a sanctuary city. So far‚ new […] The post Sanctuary City Releases Child Rapist Back Into the Community appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

I mentioned yesterday that Vice President Kamala Harris will recruit teams of “voting rights groups‚” including teenagers‚ to drum up votes for Biden. Let’s hope she’s as bad at this as she was as border czar. Harris claims they’re supporting the Voting Rights Act of 1965‚ which hasn’t been necessary for decades. Having seen these […] The post Democrats Get Out the Vote Undemocratically appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.