Grizzlies’ Ja Morant seen in video appearing to display gun at nightclub, NBA investigating

Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant remains in the news for off-the-court issues. 

Days after a police report said Morant allegedly exposed a gun after punching a teenager "12 or 13 times" during a pickup basketball game last summer, video surfaced Saturday of Morant appearing to display a gun while shirtless at a nightclub. 

The NBA released a statement on Saturday morning saying they are looking into the video. 

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"We are aware of a social media post involving Ja Morant and are investigating," NBA spokesman Mike Bass said, according to ESPN. 

The video surfaced early Saturday morning following the Grizzlies' 113-97 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Friday night. 

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Morant can be seen in the video displaying what appears to be a gun while dancing without his shirt on. 

In a report by the Washington Post earlier in the week, Morant reportedly punched a teenager in the head "12 to 13 times" in a pickup basketball game at Morant’s house last summer. 

According to the report, Morant went into his house after the altercation and emerged with a gun in his waist and his hand on the weapon. 

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Morant told police he had acted in self-defense and filed a police report after the teenager allegedly said he would come back after the altercation and "light this place up like fireworks."

"Any and every allegation involving a firearm has been fully investigated and could not be corroborated. This includes the NBA investigation last month, in which they found no evidence," Morant's agent, Jim Tanner, told The Washington Post, adding that it "was purely self-defense."

"Again, after this was fully investigated by law enforcement, they came to the decision not to charge Ja with any crime."

Hours after the report, Morant mimicked a gun motion when celebrating a teammate's three-point make against the Houston Rockets

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Grizzlies and to Morant’s agent. 
 

Webb telescope captures galaxy three times: Why it happened

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image that may make viewers double take. 

The shot features a special galaxy cluster – known as RX J2129 – and three different images of the same supernova-hosting galaxy.

RX J2129 is located approximately 3.2 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. 

The tripled galaxy is shown this way due to gravitational lensing. 

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Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend the path of light traveling past or through it – like a vast lens.

The mass and gravity of the galaxy cluster is so great that time and space around it is warped, magnifying, multiplying and distorting galaxies behind it.

The supernova in the triple-lensed background galaxy was discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope

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It contains a Type Ia supernova. Supernovae are explosions that take place during the final stages of the death of a supermassive star. A Type Ia supernova occurs roughly once every 500 years in the Milky Way and NASA says evidence shows it originates from some binary star systems that contain at least one white dwarf – the small, hot core remnant of a sun-like star.

The supernovae produce a fairly consistent luminosity, which allows astronomers to calculate astronomical distances. Scientists are able to understand how strongly the galaxy cluster is magnifying background objects and how massive it is. 

"As well as distorting the images of background objects, gravitational lenses can cause distant objects to appear much brighter than they would otherwise," the European Space Agency said in a post. "If the gravitational lens magnifies something with a known brightness, such as a Type Ia supernova, then astronomers can use this to measure the ‘prescription’ of the gravitational lens."

Furthermore, the spectroscopy of the supernova was obtained, allowing for the comparison of the supernova to Type Ia supernovae in the nearby universe. 

The agency said that this is an important way to verify that methods of measuring vast distances works as expected.

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