Status Match handles status matches, as their name suggests, and various fast tracks/boosts for several airlines and other businesses in the loyalty field. There has been a slight update to the Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) that applies to all matches they process. Here’s the T&Cs […]
Robert Horry is back in familiar territory this week. The seven-time NBA champion and Laker is back in LA, where he'll be taking part in various aspects of NBA All-Star Weekend, including the Castrol Rising Stars game on Friday night at Intuit Dome, home of the Los Angeles Clippers. "Since I played ...
Hubble may no longer be the gold standard, but it can still capture some impressive images. The telescope's latest snapshot is our clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. Roughly 3,000 light-years away from Earth, the nebula's name is derived from its dense layer of gas and dust cloaking a central star.
The new image shows the nebula's four beams of starlight (from that central star) escaping from its gas-and-dust "shell." On either side of the disc-like cloud are fast-moving outflows of hot molecular hydrogen. The orange highlights in this image indicate the glow of infrared light.
As the beams of starlight stretch out from the center, they illuminate concentric rings of gas. The gas’s ripple-like pattern suggests it was created by successive bursts from the star, with a little more ejecting every few hundred years.
Hubble image of the Egg Nebula. A disc of gas and dust surrounded by beams of light and concentric rings of dust.
SA / Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington)
The Egg Nebula, found in the constellation Cygnus, was first discovered in 1975. Nebulae in this preplanetary phase are rare finds. Since the stage only lasts a few thousand years (and because they're often faint), they're relatively difficult for astronomers to spot. By comparing this new image with previous Hubble snapshots of the Egg Nebula, astronomers can learn more about it and shed more light on its processes. But for the rest of us, it makes for some pretty sweet eye candy, right?
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/hubble-showcases-the-egg-nebula-in-all-its-dying-star-glory-174239769.html?src=rss
The Seattle Seahawks just won the Super Bowl—but its coach Mike Macdonald wouldn’t be bringing home a trophy if it weren’t for his gutsy career choice to ditch finance.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."
Why it matters: At least one of the files Raskin found appears to contradict what Trump has publicly claimed about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, according to the House Judiciary Committee ranking member.
That document is a 2009 email exchange between Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, in which Epstein recounted his lawyers' account of a phone call with Trump, as Raskin previously told reporters.
"Trump is paraphrased and quoted as saying, 'No, Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of Mar-a-Lago, but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago, and no, we never asked him to leave,'" Raskin said in an interview at the Capitol.
Trump has denied all wrongdoing in the Epstein matter, and maintained that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for poaching spa workers.
The other side: Asked for comment, the White House pointed to threepostson X from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pushing back on Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) claims about the unredacted files.
Blanche accused Massie of sensationalizing his findings, saying for example that while the name of Les Wexner was redacted in a portion of the files naming him an Epstein co-conspirator, he "already appears in the files thousands of times."
"DOJ is hiding nothing," he said in his posts. "Be honest, and stop grandstanding."
Driving the news: Following allegations of improper redactions in the more than three million files it released on Epstein, the Justice Department has begun giving members of Congress access to the unredacted files.
Starting with Judiciary Committee members, lawmakers have access to the files on terminals at DOJ headquarters from 9am to 6pm ET, Monday through Friday.
Several lawmakers, including Raskin, Massie and Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Becca Balint (D-Vt.) went to view the files on Monday.
What they're saying: But it's about more than one email, Raskin stressed, exclaiming that the Mar-a-Lago exchange is "just one memo out of three million!"
"The idea that we could get through a meaningful fraction of them is just ridiculous," he said.
"I mean, there's tons of redacted stuff… And [Trump's] name, I think I put his name and it appears more than a million times. So it's all over the place."
The bottom line: "To me, this whole rollout of saying that members can come from nine to five to sit at those four computers, is just part of the coverup," Raskin asserted.
The three million documents that the administration has not publicly released "are the ones I'd like to see," he said.
"The administration says that these are duplicative. Well go ahead and release them then! If they're duplicative, what's the problem? We'll be the judge of that."
Jacques Leveugle allegedly kept a diary of the abuse which also spanned several countries, prompting police to appeal for more victims to come forward.
