Apple TV Plus Mythic Quest’s upcoming fourth season finally has a release date, but Apple’s future plans for the series aren’t stopping there. Today, Apple announced that Mythic Quest will return on January 29th with a two-episode premiere picking up Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney,) Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao,) David Brittlesbee (David Hornsby,) Brad Bakshi (Danny Pudi,) Rachel Ashly Burch, Dana Bryant (Imani Hakim,) Jo (Jessie Ennis) and Carol (Naomi Ekperigin) adjust to a new status quo. In the new season, the Mythic Quest team will find their attempts at maintaining healthier work / life balances disrupted by stars rising, egos clashing, and new relationships blooming. Though season 4 is set to conclude on March 26th, Mythic Quest’s world will get a... Continue reading…

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Martha Stewart has been doing media rounds to promote her latest 100th cookbook titled Martha: The Cookbook: 100 Favorite Recipes, with Lessons and Stories from My Kitchen, and she made a stop at Drew Barrymore’s daytime TV show on Tuesday. The chat was going on nicely until Drew mischievously asked Martha about what makes her soft and gooey. While at it, the 49-year-old host got too close to Martha and was met with a shocking reaction from the lifestyle guru. Martha Stewart pushes Drew Barrymore away during interview Martha Stewart and Drew Barrymore/YouTube video screenshot At first, Martha does not understand what Drew means by “soft and gooey,” and the latter hinted that it was about intimate moments. Drew began stroking Martha’s back and arm, and the studio audience found it funny. The cookbook author could not bear the touchy-feely and pushed Drew off, noting that she is the wrong gender for such acts. It is not Drew’s first time receiving rebuke for being accused of overly touchy as she previously addressed complaints from viewers online. She promised to work on it, but it appears she is still having a hard time. Drew previously explained that touching her guests was her of making them feel good and comfortable, but not everyone sees it that way. Martha Stewart/ImageCollect Drew Barrymore apologizes to the affected guests Drew apologized to those she may have touched beyond their liking in the past, adding that she is learning other ways to express herself. She once sat on Natasha Lyonne’s lap and put her feet on Kathryn Hahn, though both ladies seemed just fine with it. Martha Stewart?Youtube video screenshot Martha, on the other hand, is known for her no-nonsense nature— as discussed in her newly released Netflix documentary, Martha, hence her reaction to Drew was unsurprising. The lifestyle guru’s 100th cookbook hit the shelves on November 12 and is reportedly selling fast. Next up: Rachael Ray Shares Health Concerns, Admits Her Time ‘May Be Shorter’ The post Martha Stewart Pushes Drew Barrymore Away During Interview appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

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If you were lucky enough to observe a total eclipse, you are certain to remember the halo of brilliant light around the Moon during totality. It’s known as the corona, and it is the diffuse outer atmosphere of the Sun. Although it is so thin we’d consider it a vacuum on Earth, it has a temperature of millions of degrees, which is why it’s visible during a total eclipse. According to our understanding of black hole dynamics black holes should also have a corona. And like the Sun’s corona, it is usually difficult to observe. Now a study in The Astrophysical Journal has made observations of this elusive region. For an active black hole, it’s generally thought that there is a donut-shaped torus of gas and dust surrounding the black hole, in which there is an accretion disk of heated material aligned along the rotational plane of the black hole. Streaming from the polar regions of the black hole are jets of ionized gas speeding away at nearly the speed of light. This model would explain the various types of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) we observe, since the orientation of the black hole relative to us changes the appearance of the AGN. According to the model, the innermost region of the accretion disk should be a superheated region at near vacuum density, which streams into the black hole. It is a corona like the Sun’s, but instead of millions of degrees, it has a temperature of billions of degrees. But because it’s so diffuse, its light is overwhelmed by the light of the accretion disk. Diagram of the polarization behavior of obscured black holes. Credit: Saade, et al In this new study, the team used a trick similar to observing the Sun’s corona during a total eclipse. The orientation of a black hole relative to us means that for some black holes the torus of gas and dust obscures our view of the accretion disk region, while for other black holes we can see the disk directly. These are known as obscured and unobscured black holes. The obscured black holes are similar to an eclipsed Sun, since the light of the accretion disk is blocked from view. Unfortunately, so is the black hole’s corona. But the corona is so hot that it emits extremely high-energy X-rays. These X-rays can scatter off material in the torus and reflect into our line of site. Using data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IPXE), the team gathered data on a dozen obscured black holes, including Cygnus X-1 and X-3 in the Milky Way, and LMG X-1 and X-3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. They were not only able to observe scattered X-rays from the coronas of these black holes, they were also able to detect a pattern among them. Based on the data, the corona surrounds the black hole in a disk similar to the accretion disk, rather than surrounding the black hole in a sphere similar to the Sun’s corona. Research such as this will help astronomers refine our models of black holes. It will also help us better understand how black holes consume matter and power the AGNs we observe in distant galaxies. Reference: Saade, M. Lynne, et al. “A Comparison of the X-Ray Polarimetric Properties of Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes.” The Astrophysical Journal 974.1 (2024): 101. The post Astronomers Map the Shape of a Black Hole's Corona for the First Time appeared first on Universe Today.

Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hold a special place in scientist’s hearts. There are practical and sentimental reasons for that – Pluto has tantalizing mysteries to unlock that New Horizons, the most recent spacecraft to visit the system, only added to. To research those mysteries, a multidisciplinary team from dozens of universities and research institutes has proposed Persephone – a mission to the Pluto system that could last 50 years. New Horizons rocketed past the Pluto system in 2015, which is now technically considered part of the Kuiper Belt. The mission collected data on the dwarf planet and its unique moon, Charon. Scientists have now had time to analyze the data from that mission, and it left them wanting more—in particular, data about some of the surface features that they observed. Persephone has four main scientific questions it is designed to answer, according to a paper published back in 2021: 1) “How has the population of the Kuiper Belt evolved?”2) “What are the particle and magnetic field environments of the Kuiper Belt?”3) “How have the surfaces of both Pluto and Charon changed?”4) “What are the internal structures of Pluto and Charon?” Fraser discusses what we learned about Pluto from New Horizons That last one might be the most intriguing, as the answer for Pluto’s internal structure might be that it has a subsurface ocean despite being so far away from the Sun. There is already some evidence for this, as Pluto appears to have an active surface, and an ice sheet called Sputnik Planitia could potentially be caused by a subsurface ocean. We don’t have enough data yet to prove it. That is what Persephone is designed to provide. Unfortunately, with the unforgiving logic of orbital mechanics and current constraints on propulsion technology, any such mission would take multiple decades, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. The mission design for Persephone has been operational for almost 31 years, including a 28-year cruise phase and a three-year orbit period around Pluto and Charon. It could then have an extended operational mission to visit other Kuiper belt objects to help constrain the variance in the different kinds of objects in that massive section of space. That travel time could be helped by the development of a more effective nuclear electric propulsion system, which could shave up to 2 years off it even with a heavier payload than currently planned for Persephone. Such a system has been described but might not be available for the planned 2031 launch date for Persephone on board an SLS rocket. Fraser discusses the longevity of spacecraft, which will definitely be a consideration for any future missions to Pluto. Persephone will take a suite of sensors, no matter its propulsion system, which can be “brought to bear on any and every object encountered during the mission,”. According to the flight plan, that would include Jupiter and its moons. These sensors include cameras, spectrometers, radar, magnetometers, and altimeters to meet the mission’s necessary science objectives. A critical differentiator for the mission is that it is designed to be an orbiter rather than a flyby. According to the authors, much of the data needed to be collected would be infeasible with the short period a flyby would provide with the system. An orbiter would be able to stick around and collect data over the three-year period about both Pluto and Charon, including their active surface dynamics. This proposal is just one of many mission proposals to the outer planets seeking further funding, and a preliminary estimate of $3bn puts it in the higher range of those missions. But if it is funded in some capacity, it could provide answers to the questions that New Horizons posed, even if it would take several decades to reach them. Learn More:Howett et al – Persephone: A Pluto-system Orbiter and Kuiper Belt ExplorerUT – The (Dwarf) Planet PlutoUT – NASA’s New Horizons Mission Still ThreatenedUT – New Horizons is Funded Through the Decade. Enough to Explore Another Kuiper Belt Object Lead Image:Graphic of Pluto being visited by Persephone and all the different questions the mission could answer.Credit – Howett et al. The post A New Mission To Pluto Could Answer the Questions Raised by New Horizons appeared first on Universe Today.

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