Captures

By ESA/Hubble March 11, 2024This image from the Hubble Space Telescope features LEDA 42160, a dwarf galaxy located 52 million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, part of the dense Virgo cluster of galaxies. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. SunLEDA 42160, in the Virgo cluster, experiences significant star formation changes due to ram pressure. Classified as a Magellanic spiral galaxy, it showcases the nuanced categorization of galaxies beyond basic types.This Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a…

has released a full trailer for the that's coming to soon. It's our most in-depth look yet at the show and early indications suggest that the creative team has captured the distinct blend of irreverence and violence that helped Bethesda's game series become so successful.The clip focuses on Lucy (Ella Purnell), a young woman who emerges from a fallout bunker into what used to be Los Angeles, 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse. Lucy quickly discovers that life on the surface isn't quite as cushy as staying in a luxury…

Samsung recently carried out an “out-of-this-world” mission to promote the Galaxy S24 Ultra, particularly its cameras. The company sent four S24 Ultras to space and captured some stunning photos of the Earth with the phones. You can check out the photos in the galleries below. Samsung captured the Earth from space using the Galaxy S24 Ultra The Korean tech giant often comes up with unique promotional campaigns for its latest products. For the Galaxy S24 Ultra, which debuted in January this year, it sent the phone to…

Earlier this year, NASA's Terra satellite was zipping over the Gulf of Mexico when one of its instruments snapped a photo of some odd-looking clouds.The clouds looked like someone had taken a hole punch to the sky.This unusual phenomenon isn't new. Researchers have been documenting it since the 1940s, according to NASA. But it wasn't until about 15 years ago that scientists finally found an explanation.The features are officially called cavum clouds, but are sometimes nicknamed hole-punch clouds or fallstreak holes.…

Fraunhofer FHR’s radar tracking of ESA’s ERS-2 satellite revealed crucial structural changes before re-entry, enhancing understanding of satellite disintegration and aiding in more accurate future predictions. Credit: Fraunhofer FHRESA’s ERS-2 satellite successfully reentered Earth’s atmosphere after nearly 30 years in orbit, with its final moments tracked by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute. The unexpected detachment of its solar array provided crucial data for improving satellite reentry predictions.Following a hugely…

Film: The Zone of InterestCast: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann KarthausDirector: Jonathan GlazerRating: 3.5/5Runtime: 107 min Jonathan Glazer’s film is a very loose adaptation of the Martin Amis novel on the Holocaust. In the film he shows us the everyday life of a Nazi Kommandant and his family while leaving the horrors of the Holocaust to slowly seep into our imagination. We don’t see the inhumanity happening but we definitely get the gist of it through the intelligently structured…

Radar image of the satellite ERS-2 from February 19, 2024: Solar module intact. Credit: Fraunhofer FHRThe European Space Agency (ESA) and the joint Space Situational Awareness Centre commissioned Fraunhofer FHR to accompany the re-entry of the retired ERS-2 satellite. With its unique space observation radar TIRA (Tracking and Imaging Radar), the final orbits were measured with high precision and the last images of ERS-2 were generated. For the first time, changes in the structure during re-entry were captured in…

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, on the Moon’s surface on Feb. 24, 2024, at 1:57 p.m. EST). Odysseus landed at 80.13 degrees south latitude, 1.44 degrees east longitude, at an elevation of 8,461 feet (2,579 meters). The image is 3,192 feet (973 meters) wide, and lunar north is up. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State UniversityOdysseus’ landing on the Moon represents a landmark achievement for NASA’s lunar exploration, capturing the first soft…

Potters from three different cultures (here a Hindu Indian workshop) were shown model shapes not found in their repertoire and asked to reproduce them as faithfully as possible. Because the products were more different between communities than within communities, this shows that cultural differences do not require differential cultural evolution. Credit: Enora Gandon Potters of different cultural backgrounds learn new types…

“Pressure makes diamonds, but ram pressure can make stars!" the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wrote in a social media post as it shared an image of a dwarf galaxy in the Coma Berenices constellation. It is 54 million…