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One little girl learned the meaning of the phrase “be careful what you wish for” after advising her dad to get rid of his beard. In an adorable video on social media, the toddler was sitting in the car with her father when she told him she didn’t like his facial hair. As a matter of fact, she disliked it so much, she wanted him to shave it! Dad was somewhat hesitant, but he didn’t seem entirely opposed to the idea. He was just a bit concerned that Mom wouldn’t approve. “Take it off,” the little girl demanded, gesturing to her father’s beard. Of course, very small children notoriously lack foresight. When the toddler told her dad to remove his beard, it didn’t occur to her that he’d look so different without it! This father caught the most hilarious footage of his daughter’s reaction to the big change. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ellie and theo (@uncooltoddler) Who could have guessed that Dad would look different without his beard? “Hey, why did you take it off?” asked the child upon seeing her dad without his usual beard. “Because you told me to!” the man exclaimed. Screengrab from Instagram Either the little girl had forgotten the request she made, or she didn’t think her father would actually go through with it. She seemed very confused by the situation! However, once the kid had a little time to get used to her dad’s new face, she eventually conceded that he looked good without the beard. What a relief that must have been! “You think I’m pretty?” her father asked, pretending to be anxious about her opinion. She informed him that he was not only handsome, but beautiful to boot! Then, the video ended on a very sweet note. Both father and daughter said, “I love you.” It looks like any hard feelings about Dad’s beard are now forgotten! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Little Girl Instantly Regrets Telling Dad To “Take Off” His Beard appeared first on InspireMore.

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Enter Shikari was formed in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 2003. The band’s lineup consists of Rou Reynolds (vocals, electronics), Rory Clewlow (guitar), Chris Batten (bass, backing vocals), and Rob Rolfe (drums). Enter Shikari is known for their unique fusion of post-hardcore, electronic, and various other genres, which has garnered them a dedicated fanbase and critical acclaim. The band has released seven studio albums: Take to the Skies (2007), Common Dreads (2009), A Flash Flood of Colour (2012), The Mindsweep (2015), The Spark (2017), Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible (2020), and A Kiss for the Whole World (2023). Enter The post Complete List Of Enter Shikari Albums And Discography appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Magnetic fields have been detected in very large stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the first time this has been achieved for stars outside our galaxy. It is hoped the discoveries in metal-poor regions will help us understand the processes involved, given their outsized influence.The Sun has a magnetic field, and when this gets twisted it can lead to sunspots, whose effects the world experienced in marvelous color this month. A minority of stars have much more powerful magnetic fields. Where these stars are massive enough to end their lives as neutron stars, they can turn into magnetars, which are thought to be the sources of long-duration gamma-ray bursts, rare types of supernovae, and other poorly understood phenomena.Our understanding of why some stars have such hyper-powerful fields is poor however, partly because we can’t see as many as we would like at crucial stages of their lives. There are suspicions that strong magnetic fields are the consequence of binary stars merging or engaging in mass transfers, but this is not yet proven.So far, we have failed to detect any highly magnetic galactic stars with low metal content. This may mean that low-metal stars are less likely to be highly magnetized, but it could also be a coincidence from small samples. The question is important, because low-metal massive stars are the closest study labs we get to the early universe. Attempts to expand our sample of such magnetic stars outside the galaxy have failed, until now.We can’t directly see magnetic fields in space, but we detect them through polarized light. Magnetic fields cause light emitted within them to become polarized, instead of having random orientations like most light from space, and this can be observed through what is known as spectropolarimetry."The method is extremely hungry for photons. This is a special challenge because even the brightest massive stars, which have more than eight solar masses, are relatively light-poor when observed in our neighboring galaxies,” said Dr Silva Järvinen of the Leibniz Institute of Astrophysics Potsdam in a statement. It’s just as well then that the world is in a golden age of giant telescope construction. Järvinen is part of a team that used one of the four 8-meter (26-foot) components of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to collect the light required from such distant stars.It's a process that can lead to null results for many reasons. Some stars may be magnetized, but not quite enough to be detected at this distance. Moreover, the longitudinal magnetic field the team sought is a dipole strongest near the magnetic poles and zero at the magnetic equator. With the magnetic axis randomly aligned toward Earth, some of the stars studied will inevitably be seen from the wrong angle, making it impossible to detect signs of magnetism.Where the magnetic field is at the edge of detectability the chances can be improved by studying more spectral lines over a wider range of wavelengths. Longer exposure times also help.Järvinen and co-authors sampled four rare Of?p stars, two in each of the Magellanic Clouds, where metal concentrations are generally much lower than in the Milky Way. Only five Of?p stars, distinguished by their immense mass and unusually bright CIII spectral line at 4650 Å, have been found in our entire galaxy, all highly magnetized. However, they seem to be more common in our smaller companion galaxies. They also studied a binary system whose giant stars are so close they’re touching.The team detected magnetic fields in two Of?p stars, as well as in the contact binary. The findings tend to suggest extreme magnetism is not so rare for giant stars in low-metal environments, increasing the chance of extreme events in the early universe.The study is open access in Astronomy and Astrophysics.