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Hubble images colorful planetary nebula ringed by hazy halo

NGC 2438 is a planetary nebula, formed after the death of a Sun-like star. The medium-sized star would have expelled its outer layers of gas into space as it died, leaving behind a white-dwarf core. A halo of glowing gas over 4.5 light-years across s.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgNov 4th, 2021

Textbooks come alive with new interactive AI tool

With just an iPad, students in any classroom across the world could soon reimagine the ordinary diagrams in any physics textbook—transforming these static images into 3D simulations that run, leap or spin across the page......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Hubble and Webb probe surprisingly smooth disk around Vega

In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega. She emerges inside a snowstorm of debris encircling.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

i-Blason Halo Mag series put the fun and personality back into protective phone cases

The i-Blason Halo Mag series offer phone cases with lots of style, fun, and flair. If you want something a little different, check these out......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Satellite images show North Korea dug large border trenches after demolishing road, rail links

Satellite images show North Korea dug large border trenches after demolishing road, rail links.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Creepy cosmic eyes stare out from space in Webb and Hubble image

In time for Halloween, the Webb and Hubble space telescopes have worked together to image a creepy pair of cosmic eyes......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

First images from prequel series It: Welcome to Derry preview origins of Pennywise

Check out the first images from It: Welcome to Derry, HBO's upcoming It prequel series featuring the return of Pennywise......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

See the dramatic and spooky Dark Wolf Nebula

See a spooky cosmic wolf in this stunning space image from the European Southern Observatory......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

The creepiest skulls ever seen in space

Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual tendency is called "pareidolia," and it results in creepy cosmic images. The universe is rife with mystery.Ambitious space mi.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

Apple"s M series chips are too good for their own good

Apple's new M4 chips sound amazing, but so was the last generation. What a week, huh? Apple just had three straight days of announcements: First we got the new, colorful iMac, then the most powerful Mac mini ever, followed by the grand finale:.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly "stare" of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

Why NASA"s SPHEREx mission will make "Most colorful" cosmic map ever

NASA's SPHEREx mission won't be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be the first to observe them in 102 colors......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

New ESO image captures a dark wolf in the sky

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colorful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, it was captured.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

AI method captures ecotourism photos to monitor remote animal species

A team of computer scientists, ecologists and statisticians at Stony Brook University, working with a colleague from the U.S. Geological Survey, has found that it is possible to use AI applications to find images captured by ecotourists for use in st.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

Optical amplifier and record-sensitive receiver pave the way for faster space communication

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not be disturbed along the way, hypersensitive receiver.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

This blazingly-fast star is shooting through the Milky Way with a planet in tow.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Giant clam declared critically endangered after assessment

The giant clam, known for its colorful cape-like mantle, wavy shell and astonishing size, is in danger of going extinct after its population plunged by more than 80% over the last century, according to a new assessment by a CU Boulder biologist and c.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

NASA telescopes discover brown dwarf protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the Orion Nebula, the brightest and most massive stars emit intense ultraviolet radiation that illuminates protoplanetary disks, al.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

Hera asteroid mission"s CubeSat passengers signal home

The two CubeSat passengers aboard ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense have exchanged their first signals with Earth, confirming their nominal status. The pair were switched on to check out all their systems, marking the first operation of ESA Cu.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

Kwikset Halo Select, Govee ice maker, & iPhone StandBy dock on HomeKit Insider

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast we go over another new smart lock from Kwikset, talk about the viral iPhone StandBy dock, and test the Govee smart ice maker.HomeKit Insider PodcastKwikset has launched the new Halo Select smart lock tha.....»»

Category: appleSource:  appleinsiderRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

18-year prison sentence for man who used AI to create child abuse images

UK man used AI tools from Daz 3D to create child sexual abuse imagery. A man who used artificial intelligence technology to create child sexual abuse imagery was sentenced to 18 y.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024