Day: May 25, 2025

Marvel delays ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ by 7 months each

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Marvel maniacs are going to have to muster more patience to watch “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” as Disney and Marvel Studios has announced that those two titanic superhero projects are each getting a seven-month bump in their release schedules. Will both big-budget tentpoles fare better in winter cloaks? As revealed by Disney on Thursday afternoon, “Doomsday,” starring Robert Downey Jr. as the villainous Victor von Doom, will be pushed into next year’s holiday season and arrives on Dec. 18, 2026, a little more than seven months from its…

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New 8K-resolution photos of the sun show off incredible details of raging sunspots

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Incredible new images of the sun’s surface provide an unprecedented view of raging sunspots and solar activity. A new high-resolution camera system developed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) for the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT), located at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife, reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time, according to a statement from AIP. Solar observations often face a trade-off between field of view and resolution. Large solar telescopes provide high-resolution images but cover limited areas, while smaller instruments…

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Scientists question possible signs of life on exoplanet K2-18b in new study: ‘We never saw more than insignificant hints’

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In 2023, scientists from Cambridge University reported what appeared to be very exciting news. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they said, had detected signs of a liquid water ocean — and possibly life — on the exoplanet K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune world located about 124 light-years away from Earth. Then, earlier this year, the same team announced what they called even stronger evidence for those potential signs of alien life. The signs were rooted in a tentative detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) — a molecule produced on Earth solely by…

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