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Exploring the Great Sky Island in Tear of the Kingdom makes for one of the coolest openings in a Zelda game, but that doesn’t stop some of us from wanting to escape it.  Normally you have to play through the entirety of the Great Sky Island area to make your way to the mainland of Hyrule, but glitch hunters and Tears of the Kingdom speedrunners have been trying to find a way around that requirement since the game was released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCyWiOd1n8 A YouTuber called Timber posted a lengthy video…

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSky Cinema is celebrating Groundhog Day in a brilliantly apt manner.As has been the norm for many many years, the channel has decided to mark the traditional Pennsylvania holiday, which falls on 2 February, in a rather irreverent way.To mark the occasion, Sky Cinema Comedy is showing the 1993 film, in which Bill Murray lives the same day over and over again in Punxsutawney, a grand…

If it were ever possible to take a flight through the extreme conditions of Neptune's atmosphere, we might experience the fascinating phenomenon of diamond rain tapping at our window.According to a new study by an international team of researchers, such a blizzard of bling could be relatively common throughout the Universe.Carbon can link into a crystal on giant, icy gas planets like Neptune and Uranus because of the ultra-high temperatures and pressures deep down in the atmosphere. These conditions break up hydrocarbons…

Zonal mean of 10 years averaged total ozone column depletion resulting from injection of 5 Mt/yr of alumina particles assuming different parameterizations of R1 or alumina particles to be covered with sulfuric acid ("H2SO4 coating") simulated with SOCOL-AER under (a) 2020 and (b) 2090 ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gas conditions. For comparison we also show an SO2 injection scenario with equal injection rates as for the alumina injection…

Skywatching in January 2024 features the Quadrantid meteor shower, planetary conjunctions with the Moon, and the ever-changing star positions due to Earth’s orbit, with stars rising four minutes earlier each day. Credit: SciTechDaily.comWhat are some skywatching highlights in January 2024?The year kicks off with the Quadrantid meteors, and some great Moon-planet pairings. Plus, did you know the stars shift in the sky by four minutes each day?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjctqlG78wAWHAT TO LOOK FOR:Meteors and shifting…

You know how some constellations take a little bit of imagination to see? Yes, Leo looks a bit like a lion and Orion a bit like a hunter but then we drift into the realms of powerful levels of imagination to be able to see Pegasus as a flying horse or Telescopium as a telescope!Even squinting or tilting your head really doesn't make them visible. I found the same problem when looking at images of two stone disks discovered in Italy recently at the entrance to an ancient fort!Teams that have examined the stones have…

Sky News presenter Jayne Secker has been criticised for her negative reaction to a 13-year-old boy setting an historic Tetris record. Earlier this week, Willis Gibson from Oklahoma became the first known person to “beat” the original NES version of the game, reaching such a high level that it caused it freeze. For the first time since Tetris was released in 1985, the game crashed at level 157, after Willis cleared 1,511 lines in just 38 minutes. You can watch him achieve the feat and his subsequent reaction below.…

With 2023 finally wrapped—and with some very interesting and beautiful cosmic images to show for it—it’s time to look ahead. What astronomical events does 2024 hold for us? There’s a whole year’s worth of sky phenomena to observe, so here’s your chance to learn more about and plan for some of them.If you’re not familiar with the sky and aren’t sure where to look for these events, there are many planetarium apps you can download—a quick look on your favorite search engine should give you many choices. There’s also the…

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has created a stunning all-sky time-lapse movie from 14 years of data, capturing the dynamic universe. It highlights the Sun’s path, the gamma-ray glow of the Milky Way, and distant galaxies known as blazars. The movie reveals both the beauty and complexity of the cosmos, showcasing high-energy events from across the galaxy and beyond, including eruptions from supermassive black holes. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comNASA’s Fermi Space Telescope presents a 14-year…