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It’s looking like 2023 could be an outstanding year for Xbox, even if that comes at the cost of 2022’s lineup. During the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase on June 12, Microsoft only showed games it expects to launch within the next 12 months. Many of these games were from Xbox Game Studios, and with the exceptions of As Dusk Falls and Pentiment, they all are set to release in the first half of 2023. Many other Xbox Game Studios titles are confirmed and assumed to be slated for 2023, too. Next year looks like it…

Sky watchers will have yet another chance to glimpse a full moon in June of 2022 — but this one is special. The Strawberry Moon will grace our skies in mid-June. If you’re interested in seeing it for yourself, then here’s what you need to know. When to view the June 2022 full moon Image source: tia bozzo/EyeEm / Adobe As NASA notes, the June 2022 full moon isn’t called a Strawberry Moon because it looks like a strawberry. The name was given to the moon by the Algonquin tribes of the United States and…

Jeff Goldblum has recalled the time he ate popcorn with Princess Diana at a screening of Jurassic Park.The actor said that the Princess of Wales had been a “spectacular lady” when they were sat next to one other at an early showing of the 1993 film. Goldblum relayed the story at the global premiere of the forthcoming Jurassic World: Dominion on Monday (6 June) in Los Angeles.Recalling the premiere of the original Nineties film, he told Entertainment Tonight: “I’m remembering London.“We showed it to – speaking of the…

The 1833 Leonid Meteor storm, as seen over Niagara Falls. Credit: Edmund Weiß (1888)As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids. That debris gives birth to meteor showers – which can be one of nature’s most spectacular displays.Most meteor showers are predictable, recurring each year when the Earth traverses a particular trail of debris.On occasion, however, Earth runs through a particularly narrow, dense clump of debris. This results in a meteor storm, sending thousands…

This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming along a trail of debris left during its multiple trips around the sun. The flame-like objects are the comet’s fragments and their tails, while the dusty comet trail is the line bridging the fragments. Credit: NASAAstronomers are excited about the possibility of a new meteor shower on May 30-31, the tau Herculid shower, forecast to peak on the night of May 30 and early morning of May 31.Back in 1930, German…

Meteor showers are one of the universe's most dazzling events that we can see in the night sky without needing equipments like telescopes or binoculars. A meteor is a space rock that enters the atmosphere of our planet. When this rock closes in on Earth, the resistance —or drag — of the air makes it extremely hot and it throws out the light. The bright streak, however, is not actually the rock, rather it is the glowing hot air around it. The Earth regularly plows through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids…

As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids. That debris gives birth to meteor showers – which can be one of nature's most amazing spectacles.  Most meteor showers are predictable, recurring annually when the Earth traverses a particular trail of debris.Occasionally, however, Earth runs through a particularly narrow, dense clump of debris. This results in a meteor storm, sending thousands of shooting stars streaking across the sky each hour.A minor shower called the Tau…

For the last 20 years and counting, the superhero genre has been the most lucrative and popular type of filmmaking in Hollywood, and the bubble doesn’t show any signs of bursting in the near future. With that in mind, you may be wondering why it’s a surprise to discover such a movie making a splash on Netflix, and the answer is simple; Black Lightning is a Russian blockbuster that was first released 13 years ago. Co-written and directed by Alexandr Voitinsky, Grigoriy Dobrygin stars as Dimitri Maykov, who ends up…

By NASA May 19, 2022Image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from NASA’s Juno mission, with image processing to enhance the “rose” look. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Image processing by Mary J. Murphy<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Jupiter</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. It is a gas giant with a mass greater then all of the other…

Two of the 46 vulture figures on the central section of the ceiling (central bay) of Khnum at Esna. At the top, the Upper-Egyptian goddess Nekhbet with the head of a vulture, below, the Lower-Egyptian goddess Wadjet with the head of a cobra. Credit: Ahmed Amin/MoTA In the Temple of Khnum at Esna, Upper Egypt, German and Egyptian researchers have uncovered a series of vibrantly-colored ceiling frescoes. The relief images in…