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Haven’t we all been around someone who was more interested in their phone than talking to us? Coming in second place to an electronic device never feels meaningful or good. And I admit, I have been on both sides of this equation myself. I have seen the distraction, and I have been the distracted. We …

In the predawn hours of November 18, 2019, Northwestern University astronomer Cliff Johnson noticed a huge swarm of unfamiliar objects streaking across the sky. That night, Johnson was surveying the Magellanic Clouds — two very dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own Milky Way galaxy — with the telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory …