Month: May 2023

Little lightsabers will be crackling when Lucasfilm and Disney+ pull the wrapper off their fresh Star Wars show meant for the youngest segment of their audience yet, the younglings! Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is a sugary-sweet, vividly-conjured animated series. It’s crafted specifically for the preschool and early-grade crowd for their very first introduction to the infinite wonders of the magical Star Wars universe. For seemingly the longest time, Star Wars has always been aimed at a broad chunk of the general demographics curve that, for some reason, never manifested…

An artist’s impression of how Saturn may look in the next hundred million years. The innermost rings disappear as they rain onto the planet first, very slowly followed by the outer rings. (Image credit: NASA/Cassini/James O’Donoghue) Saturn’s rings are disappearing, and we don’t know how much longer they will be around. Astronomers have known since the 1980s that Saturn‘s icy innermost rings are steadily eroding onto its upper atmosphere. The downpour is happening at such a high rate that an Olympic-sized swimming pool of water rains on the gas giant…

Tiny black holes may have had a big impact on the early universe. A large population of small black holes could have flooded the young cosmos with particles and radiation, creating their own black hole-powered Big Bang, physicists propose in a new paper. As of now, there is only one confirmed way to make black holes. You must start with a massive star and then let it die. Near the end of its life, its core collapses under its own weight. With no other force capable of withstanding that pressure,…

BORDEAUX, FRANCE – Parabolic flight pilots are a rare breed. There are only eight of them in Europe capable of sharing the aircraft’s controls during these nerve-wracking series of up-and-down maneuvers that create brief spells of weightlessness and reduced gravity conditions. These aviators include the cream of the crop of Europe’s military and test pilots and even one active astronaut. Probably the most experienced of these magnificent eight is Eric Delesalle, the head pilot at Bordeaux-based company Novespace, a spin-off from French space agency CNES and Europe’s only provider of…