Brian may

The prominent astrophysicist and musician Brian May is co-authoring a three-dimensional atlas of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, an 85-million-ton hunk of rock orbiting the Sun.Inspiration Behind Immortal Longings | io9 InterviewMay is co-authoring the book with Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of NASA and the university’s OSIRIS-REx mission. May is also part of the mission team.OSIRIS-REx saw a small spacecraft arrive at Bennu in 2018 and extract a sample of…

The U.K.’s King Charles III is really serious about keeping space clean, so much so that he unveiled the Astra Carta framework’s seal at Buckingham Palace yesterday.Are Big Consumer Facing Tech Companies Redeemable? The Astra Carta framework is a Sustainable Markets Initiative, as described in a Royal Family press release, which emphasizes sustainable practices for space companies. Charles unveiled the seal at the Space Sustainability Event at the palace, which saw attendees,including scientists, astronauts,…

Image: UniversalIn the relative early days of the Fast franchise, Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto was headlining the series with the late Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner. When Walker died in 2013, the franchise opted to retire the character with Furious 7 two years later. Later installments have made it clear he’s quite alive—F9 even ends with his car coming to the Torettos’ driveway—and Dom’s son (as revealed in F8 of the Furious) is even named after the character.Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future TechBrian’s absence has…