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entertainment10 days ago•17 min saved

McConaughey's Screen Debut Helped Crack a Murder Case

At the Filmland festival in Little Rock, Matthew McConaughey accepted Variety’s Legend & Groundbreaker Award and discussed his career, adding praise for Christopher Nolan and his work on Interstellar; in a surprising anecdote, he recalled that his 1992 Unsolved Mysteries reenactment helped trigger the 1993 capture of Edward Harold Bell for multiple murders, a moment he joked about having helped crack, while also noting his return to the screen with The Rivals of Amziah King.

via Variety|

#christopher-nolan #dazed-and-confused #entertainment

space17 days ago•157 min saved

NASA extends Voyager 2's life with a Big Bang power tweak

NASA has trimmed Voyager 2's power needs by shutting off nonessential systems and using lower-power equipment on its plutonium-powered RTG, allowing the probe's remaining three science instruments to operate for at least another year despite razor-thin power margins; two instruments were already disabled since 2024, and Voyager 1 will receive the same power tweak soon. The spacecraft continue to transmit interstellar data, with Voyager 2 about 142 AU and Voyager 1 about 171 AU from Earth, and signals taking roughly 24 hours to reach us.

via Space|

#interstellar #nasa #space

entertainment1 month ago•10 min saved

Nolan, Re-Ranked: A Fresh Take on His Entire Filmography

An opinion piece ranks Christopher Nolan’s films from worst to best, placing Following at the bottom and The Prestige at the top. It lauds craft across the spectrum, calling out moments in Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer, and treats The Odyssey as Nolan’s ambitious new adaptation slipping in at mid-pack in this lineup.

via Kotaku|

#christopher-nolan #entertainment #film-ranking

entertainment1 month ago•8 min saved

Tracing Nolan's arc: a fresh ranking of his 13 films

A ranking of Christopher Nolan's 13 films—from Following (1998) to Inception (2010)—with the fictional The Odyssey (2026) included; the piece praises Nolan’s mix of blockbuster spectacle and cerebral puzzles, placing Inception at the top while highlighting standout entries like The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Oppenheimer, and noting occasional missteps such as Tenet.

via The Washington Post|

#christopher-nolan #entertainment #film-ranking

film1 month ago•20 min saved

Nolan on the Screen: Where to Stream His Films Right Now

Deadline’s guide shows where Christopher Nolan’s films are streaming or rentable today: Memento is on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock, Kanopy, and Hoopla; Insomnia isn’t streaming and is for rent; The Prestige streams on Hulu; The Dark Knight trilogy is available via HBO Max/Prime Video channels and YouTube TV; Inception has limited streaming (MGM+ with a trial) and rental options on Prime Video and Spectrum; Interstellar is on Hulu and Paramount+; Dunkirk and Tenet are rentable on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango, and Spectrum; Oppenheimer isn’t streaming but can be rented on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango, and Spectrum; The Odyssey (2026) is upcoming, likely heading to Peacock after its theatrical run.

via Deadline|

#christopher-nolan #film #interstellar

space1 month ago•13 min saved

Voyager's barely-there interstellar whisper still reaches Earth

Even after more than four decades, Voyager 1's transmitter—powering a signal the strength of a household bulb—remains audible on Earth as an ultra-weak whisper. NASA's Deep Space Network and enhanced ground systems extract data about the heliopause and local interstellar medium from this fading signal, which travels tens of billions of kilometers and requires a round-trip of nearly two days. The probes’ aging hardware has forced engineers to repair and adapt memory and power management over the years, and while the plutonium power source will eventually silence the link, for now Voyager persists as a faint but scientifically valuable bridge to the edge of the solar system.

via Space Daily|

#communication #deep-space-network #interstellar

science1 month ago•4 min saved

Ancient interstellar traveler: 3I/ATLAS likely formed around an ancient star

Scientists using the VLT measured carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios in cyanide around interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and conclude it formed in the outer regions of an old, low-metallicity star system—likely much older than the Sun—making it one of the Galaxy’s oldest known objects; future observations with the ELT will study more interstellar visitors.

via BBC Sky at Night Magazine|

#3iatlas #comet #interstellar

space1 month ago•104 min saved

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Carries Fossil Clues From a Distant Disk

New isotope measurements from JWST and the VLT corroborate that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS formed billions of years ago far from its parent star, likely in the outer regions of a protoplanetary disk (akin to a Kuiper belt) and was later ejected into interstellar space. Its carbon-12 to carbon-13 and nitrogen-14 to nitrogen-15 ratios differ markedly from solar-system comets, suggesting a birth environment and chemistry unlike our own. The findings were published in Nature Astronomy.

via Space|

#3iatlas #interstellar #isotopes

space1 month ago•6 min saved

Solar Wind Faces a Hidden Interstellar Drag at the Solar System’s Edge

New Horizons observations indicate interstellar material slows the solar wind as it moves outward, adding a gradual drag beyond the termination shock. Simulations align with Voyager 2 data, showing the wind is about 5–10% slower between 30–43 AU and 13–15% slower at ~58 AU, due to ionized interstellar matter shaping the heliosphere’s boundaries and affecting cosmic-ray exposure—insights that could inform future interstellar exploration.

via Gizmodo|

#heliosphere #interstellar #newhorizons

science1 month ago•13 min saved

Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS: A Star-Borne Comet Tracks Through Our Solar System

In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile detected a faint, fast-moving object with a hyperbolic (unbound) orbit, later identified as 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object. Traveling about 130,000 mph, it was not a threat to Earth, with a close approach well outside the Moon’s orbit. Hubble and other facilities observed a dust plume and activity consistent with a comet, constraining the nucleus size and confirming a cometary nature. The discovery shows interstellar visitors are real and detectable with modern surveys, enabling comparative studies of material from other star systems.

via Space Daily|

#3iatlas #atlas-survey #comet

science2 months ago•12 min saved

Water in Your Glass Traces Back to Interstellar Ice

New models argue a substantial portion of solar-system water—roughly 30–50%—was inherited from pre-solar interstellar ice, not formed in the early solar disk; the deuterium enrichment seen in solar-system water is hard to explain with disk chemistry alone, suggesting some water in Earth’s oceans and comets predates the Sun by billions of years and carries ancient interstellar heritage.

via Space Daily|

#astronomy #deuterium #interstellar

science-and-tech2 months ago•23 min saved

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Points to a Cosmos Older Than the Solar System

New observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from JWST and other telescopes confirm its interstellar origin and reveal chemical fingerprints—a red, cosmic-ray–processed surface; unusually high deuterium abundance and a carbon-12 to carbon-13 ratio far lower than Solar System values—that point to formation in a cold, primitive environment long before our Solar System, making 3I/ATLAS billions of years older than the Sun; its orbit alone cannot determine its age.

via Big Think|

#astronomy #comets #deuterium

space2 months ago•4 min saved

JWST Finds Ancient, Cold Origins for Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Webb’s NIRSpec study of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals unusually high deuterium and low carbon-13, suggesting the it formed in a very cold, early region of the galaxy roughly 10–12 billion years ago outside our Solar System. The isotopic signatures imply formation in a dense, frozen cloud and hint that the ingredients for chemistry—and possibly life—could exist in distant stellar nurseries. The findings, published in Nature, are complemented by an ESO/VLT analysis of cyanide isotopes.

via European Space Agency|

#3iatlas #carbon-13 #deuterium

science2 months ago•39 min saved

Ancient interstellar visitor hints at origins predating the Solar System

Astronomers analyzing the interstellar comet suggest it formed long before the Sun, likely in another star system before being ejected into interstellar space, implying its material is much older than the Solar System and offering clues about planetary formation elsewhere.

via Yahoo|

#astronomy #comet #interstellar

space2 months ago•70 min saved

Methane Revelation: JWST Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

JWST observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, taken near and after perihelion, detect methane for the first time on an interstellar object. The methane-to-water ratio is higher than in most solar-system comets, and the methane appears after perihelion because it is buried deeper in the nucleus and only sublimates with extended solar heating; concurrently water vapor declined as the comet crossed the snow line, while CO2 and methane persisted, suggesting 3I/ATLAS formed in a different environment and preserves primordial methane ice, providing insight into other planetary systems.

via Space|

#3iatlas #interstellar #jwst