COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937? Numerous expeditions have turned up nothing, only confirming that swaths of ocean floor […]
A stunning new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a huge ‘bridge of stars’ extending from one of the galaxies in a galactic grouping to another. The image focuses on the galaxy Arp 295a, from which the 250,000 light-year-long streamer of stars is stretching, as it is seen edge-on by Hubble and surrounded by a milky-colored […]
Social media platform X has blocked searches linked to Taylor Swift after fake, AI-generated explicit images of the pop star were posted to the site. Attempted searches for “Taylor Swift” currently return no results on the platform, formerly known as Twitter, with users instead shown an automated error message. Joe Benarroch, head of business operations […]
Days before India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened a divisive Hindu temple built on ground where a centuries-old mosque was torn down by religious zealots, social media users shared a video they falsely claimed showed the deity Ram’s image projected in a Muslim-majority city in Indian-administered Kashmir. The video previously circulated in news reports about […]
A team of astronomers became a crew of cosmic crash scene investigators while studying wreckage left behind by two galaxies that smashed into one another over 1 billion years ago. The scientists used the Gemini South Telescope to investigate the twisted galactic disk of the galaxy NGC 4753, located around 60 million light-years from Earth, […]
Earlier in January, millions of people engaged with an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated photo of the Eiffel Tower catching fire, leading many people online to witness the wide-ranging capabilities of AI. The manipulated image of the Eiffel Tower, which has now been removed from TikTok, where it first appeared, had over 4.5 million likes and thousands […]
[Source] An image of Japan’s historic Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, which successfully reached the moon last week, revealed that it landed on its head. About the image: The photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows SLIM upside down on the lunar surface, as captured by the robot LEV-2 (Lunar […]
Japan just got an epic new photo to put in its space exploration scrapbook. The country’s SLIM spacecraft landed on the moon on Jan. 19, making Japan just the fifth nation ever to pull off a soft lunar touchdown. And a new photo provides visual evidence of that success, showing SLIM resting on the gray […]
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The second image of the first black hole ever to be pictured by humanity shows that its shadow persists a year on. The newly released image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on April 21, 2018, a year and […]
With the goal of “changing the narrative” about Brevard’s school board and how they function, the board hosted a local attorney at their first work session of the year in search of advice for improving their public image. The board, which has consisted of the same members since the November 2022 election, has faced public […]
A Chinese court’s decision recognising the copyright of an image generated via artificial intelligence (AI) aims to encourage such creations and provide a boost to this nascent industry, according to the judge who made the landmark ruling. In the first judgment of its kind in mainland China, the Beijing Internet Court last November ruled that […]