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Posted in: Comics | Tagged: Deprog, Lisa Sterle, tina hornDeprog by Tina Horn (SFSX) & Lisa Sterle (Witchblood) is described as "a new detective thriller that's John Constantine meets Jessica Jones"Article Summary Deprog #1, a dark detective thriller by Tina Horn & Lisa Sterle, debuts March 2024. Described as John Constantine meets Jessica Jones with a kinky twist. Tate Debs, a detective with a cult past, takes on a potentially re-traumatizing case. Published by Dead Sky, Tina Horn's latest…

December 22, 20233 min readScientists accidentally discovered a new way of monitoring the Earth’s planetary boundary layer: high-flying great frigate birdsBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | Great frigatebirds are among nature’s most effortless fliers, routinely soaring more than a mile above the ground and sometimes staying aloft for weeks at a time.Now scientists have a new reason to be impressed with their skills. Researchers have recently discovered — by chance — that great frigatebirds can collect…

Most of the light streaming through our Universe is invisible to human eyes.The spectrum ranges from long radio waves to short gamma rays, with the visible part occupying just a tiny slice in the middle. But, thanks to telescope technology, we're able to peer into other slices of the spectrum, and see all the light in the sky.NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is one such instrument. Gamma radiation is the most energetic light in the cosmos, and it's produced by energetic sources such as supernova remnants, pulsar…

By Lindsey Doermann, NASA Earth Observatory December 20, 2023December 17, 2023A spate of solar activity produced widespread auroras across Canada.A flurry of solar activity in mid-December 2023 sent energized particles crashing into Earth’s magnetosphere, producing undulating auroras across northern latitudes of our planet. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of light from the aurora over western Canada in the early morning of December 17, 2023.…

The weather is colder and the nights are longer, which makes it a great time to look for "shooting stars."And this week is the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the best shows of the year.A major meteor shower occurs nearly every month, where we can expect anywhere from five to 150 meteors an hour, under ideal conditions. And that's what makes the Geminids so special: in ideal conditions, under dark skies, there could be upward of 100 to 150 meteors an hour.We get meteor showers when Earth passes through a…

Night isn’t the only time to see gorgeous things in the sky. Some of the most awe-invoking heavenly phenomena can only happen during the day, when the sun is shining.If you live in a place where you (1) can see our home star and (2) have an atmosphere above your head—statistically speaking, I think that covers most of our readers—then you can see some truly lovely daytime apparitions, such as giant rings around the sun, glowing arcs and ethereal flattened rainbows. There are many different kinds of these visual delights…

Whether you’re talking about auroras, the beautiful glowing lights known as STEVE, or green-hued and mysterious “ghosts,” our sky is packed with strange and alluring phenomena. While we know what causes auroras and even have an idea of what causes STEVE, the origins of mysterious “ghosts” that sometimes appear in the sky during intense storms have alluded scientists. But now, a new study may finally have some answers.Likewise dubbed a “ghost” by Texan rock singer Hank Schyma when he captured a photo of one of…

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: OurSky’s new funding News from DARPA, the FAA and more A developer platform for the…sky? That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network. The company announced that it closed $9.5 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures alongside Oceans Ventures, Venrex Investment Management, Marlinspike Partners and Embedded Ventures, to further…

At this moment in time, No Man’s Sky is easily one of the best sandbox games around. We’re long past those dark days when the overhyped game underdelivered to the pain of waiting fans. Now, with the holiday season upon us, Hello Games is giving us one more chance to replay this year’s limited-span content. To see the year out, No Man’s Sky is bringing back 2023’s community Expeditions, “offering explorers another opportunity to experience these stories and events and earn exclusive rewards.”…

There has been increased interest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) ever since the Pentagon's 2021 report revealed what appears to be anomalous objects in US airspace, dubbed unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).Fast forward to 2023, and Nasa has already formed a panel to investigate the reports and appointed a director for UAP research.A newly founded Pentagon desk has also released footage of mysterious metallic orbs. What is perhaps most remarkable is that David Grusch, a former intelligence officer, testified…