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Astronomers working with the JWST found a dwarf galaxy they weren't looking for. It's about 98 million light years away, has no neighbors, and was in the background of an image of other galaxies. This isolated galaxy shows a lack of star-formation activity, which is very unusual for an isolated dwarf.Most isolated dwarf galaxies form stars, according to a wealth of observations. What's different about this one?The JWST's PEARLS (Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science) observing program is aimed at…

Businessman and MAGA wannabe Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, announcing that he’s had enough after finishing in a distance fourth at the Iowa caucuses on Monday. “We are going to suspend this presidential campaign,” he told supporters. “There’s no path for me to be the next president absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country. I am very worried for our country. I think we are skating on thin ice as a nation.” Vivek Ramaswamy announces…

Renowned actor and humanitarian, Angelina Jolie, has strongly criticized the Israeli air strikes in Gaza, characterizing them as a deliberate assault on a population with no means of escape. In a heartfelt statement shared on her Instagram account, accompanied by a photo revealing the devastation caused by a recent fatal airstrike at Gaza’s largest refugee camp, Jabalia, Jolie did not mince words. In her Instagram post, Angelina began with a powerful statement: “This is the deliberate bombing of a trapped…

As highly-regarded and influential as he is as a true icon of popular culture, it would appear as though coming highly recommended by Stephen King isn’t enough to convince paying customers to take a trip down to their local theater in order to catch it on the big screen. It’s only been 24 hours since the inimitable scribe of countless classics threw his backing behind The Lesson, a widely-acclaimed thriller that no doubt spoke to him at least in part due to its setting in the literary world. Unfortunately, the public…

Image via Lucasfilm The cracks in Disney’s box office armor have been appearing with alarming regularity after a string of high-profile flops, and things may not be about to change with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, either. Despite being the iconic adventurer’s final big screen appearance – and first in 15 years since the divisive Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – James Mangold’s swansong for the whip-cracking archeologist is tracking to score a domestic opening weekend on a par with Black Adam and Solo,…

via Warner Bros. There are quite a few people out there who believe Ezra Miller‘s off-camera antics have contributed to The Flash cratering at the box office in alarmingly rapid time for a $200 million blockbuster, but one box office pundit isn’t buying it for a second, and even referred to the actor by the wrong pronouns while doing so. Whether it was intentional or not, the unnamed box office analyst who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter didn’t believe that the DCU’s longtime Barry Allen – who uses they/them…

Image via 20th Century Fox With the theatrical debut of The Flash came a few questions, the most important of which was this — just how well would it perform at the box office? It looks like the fear that some fans had of the movie being less-than-successful is a reality, as The Flash has not performed well at the box office. The film’s sluggish intake is ironic for a movie about a speedy hero, and given that the film’s premise is about alternate realities and multiple versions of the same character, some are…

Image via Warner Bros. Ever since spine-tingling stories from horror novelist Stephen King were transformed into a variety of blockbuster film adaptations back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, modern-day filmmakers have been trying to capitalize on that success with a plethora of updated remakes and fresh-faced projects. But with three of the last Stephen King film adaptations getting critically panned across the internet, it’s worth begging the question as to whether this controversy has stopped the Salem’s Lot remake…

The biggest film website in the world has said that the new, live action remake of The Little Mermaid has been the subject of “review bombing”, with mass negative reactions posted by bots to bring down the average review score.The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) said on Wednesday that the “unusual voting activity” it had detected on the reviews page for the film had led it to make changes to its rating system to mitigate unfair trolling.Since its release last week, The Little Mermaid has attracted about 43,000 user ratings…

Gaijin Entertainment has removed the mention of Steam from War Thunder‘s website following review bombing. As spotted by PCGamesN, the War Thunder website no longer displays the mention of Steam alongside its other platforms. This follows a series of review bombings after in-game economic changes that would potentially make the game harder to play without spending real money. Even though Gaijin said it would be reversing the changes, the developer went on to remove Steam from its website even though the game is still…