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Box Office: Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Opens to Record-Breaking $12.8 Million, Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Stumbles in Second Weekend – Variety
- Box Office: Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Opens to Record-Breaking $12.8 Million, Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Stumbles in Second Weekend Variety
- Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ is No. 1 at the box office, a first for the Japanese anime master The Associated Press
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Brace for a potentially record-breaking winter after sweltering summer and autumn, say researchers – Phys.org
- Brace for a potentially record-breaking winter after sweltering summer and autumn, say researchers Phys.org
- WMO Confirms 2023 as Warmest Year on Record, Calls for Urgent Climate Action at COP28 | Weather.com The Weather Channel
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‘Jawan’ Global Box Office Delivers Record-Breaking Debut for Bollywood – Collider
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Hotels are pretty much booked up for upcoming Taylor Swift concerts in Santa Clara following record-breaking ticket sales – KGO-TV
- Hotels are pretty much booked up for upcoming Taylor Swift concerts in Santa Clara following record-breaking ticket sales KGO-TV
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Record-breaking Caitlin Clark leads No.2 Iowa to stunning victory over defending champion South Carolina in Final Four – CNN
- Record-breaking Caitlin Clark leads No.2 Iowa to stunning victory over defending champion South Carolina in Final Four CNN
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NASA’s Record-Breaking Lucy Spacecraft Has a New Asteroid Target
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft at an asteroid. Credit: NASA
“There are millions of asteroids in the main asteroid belt,” said Raphael Marschall, Lucy collaborator at the Nice Observatory in France, who identified asteroid 1999 VD57 as an object of special interest for Lucy. “I selected 500,000 asteroids with well-defined orbits to see if Lucy might be traveling close enough to get a good look at any of them, even from a distance. This asteroid really stood out. Lucy’s trajectory as originally designed will take it within 40,000 miles of the asteroid, at least three times closer than the next closest asteroid.”
As the NASA Lucy spacecraft travels through the inner edge of the main asteroid belt in the Fall of 2023, the spacecraft will fly by the small, as-of-yet unnamed, asteroid (152830) 1999 VD57. This graphic shows a top-down view of the Solar System indicating the spacecraft’s trajectory shortly before the November 1 encounter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
The Lucy team realized that, by adding a small maneuver, the spacecraft would be able to get an even closer look at this asteroid. So, on January 24, the team officially added it to Lucy’s tour as an engineering test of the spacecraft’s pioneering terminal tracking system. This new system solves a long-standing problem for flyby missions: during a spacecraft’s approach to an asteroid, it is quite difficult to determine exactly how far the spacecraft is from the asteroid, and exactly which way to point the cameras.
“In the past, most flyby missions have accounted for this uncertainty by taking a lot of images of the region where the asteroid might be, meaning low efficiency and lots of images of blank space,” said Hal Levison, Lucy principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Colorado office. “Lucy will be the first flyby mission to employ this innovative and complex system to automatically track the asteroid during the encounter. This novel system will allow the team to take many more images of the target.”
It turns out that 1999 VD57 provides an excellent opportunity to validate this never-before-flown procedure. The geometry of this encounter—particularly the angle that the spacecraft approaches the asteroid relative to the Sun—is very similar to the mission’s planned Trojan asteroid encounters. This allows the team to carry out a dress rehearsal under similar conditions well in advance of the spacecraft’s main scientific targets.
This asteroid was not identified as a target earlier because it is extremely small. In fact, 1999 VD57, estimated to be a mere 0.4 miles (700 m) in size, will be the smallest main belt asteroid ever visited by a spacecraft. It is much more similar in size to the near-Earth asteroids visited by recent NASA missions OSIRIS-REx and DART than to previously visited main belt asteroids.
The Lucy team will carry out a series of maneuvers starting in early May 2023 to place the spacecraft on a trajectory that will pass approximately 280 miles (450 km) from this small asteroid.
Lucy’s principal investigator is based out of the Boulder, Colorado branch of Southwest Research Institute, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, built the spacecraft. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Madison Chock, Evan Bates win age record-breaking U.S. ice dance title
SAN JOSE, California – They have both begun the new Olympic cycle as the undisputed national leaders in their figure skating disciplines, cementing that status with U.S. titles Saturday – the fourth for ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates, the second for the pairs’ team of Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier.
At this point, their respective paths to the 2026 Winter Games seem free and clear of challengers.
The question for the dancers and the pair is how far down that road they intend to go.
“I don’t know what the next four years will hold,” Chock said. “But we’re committed to each other and our goals, and we’ll decide when the time comes.”
Chock, 30, and Bates, 33, engaged to be married in the summer of 2024, have been at this a long time. And their trophy case is packed to the gills, with the only gaps a world title and an individual Olympic medal.
They have competed together at the senior level in the U.S. Championships for 12 seasons, winning medals at the last 11. They have been to nine world championships, winning three medals, and three Olympics (four for Bates), winning a yet-to-be-awarded team medal last year in Beijing.
(The unresolved doping case involving Russian skater Kamila Valiyeva has delayed the awarding of the 2022 team event medals. Maybe it will become a wedding present for Chock and Bates. Or a fifth anniversary present…)
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Until this year, Chock and Bates had faced formidable rivals on the national scene – 2014 Olympic champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White; 2018 Olympic bronze medalists Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani; and 2022 Olympic bronze medalists Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, with whom Chock and Bates traded gold medals over the previous four seasons. All have retired from competition.
Saturday, they cruised to the gold medal by 22.29 points over Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, the largest ice dance victory margin at nationals since 2006. In a discipline where established hierarchy weighs heavily, Chock and Bates find themselves in the unfamiliar position of being on a metaphorical easy street to the top step of the U.S. podium.
“We – at least I – felt nervous today,” Bates said. “We (still) felt compelled to skate well. The lack of maybe the Hubbell-Donohue back and forth did not mitigate the specialness today.”
Knierim, 31, and Frazier, 30, have similar longevity at nationals, even if they did not team up until 2020, taking the U.S. title in their first season together.
Knierim skated at seven nationals with her husband, Chris, winning three titles, Frazier at seven with Haven Denney, winning once.
Knierim and Frazier had expected to retire after last season, when they missed nationals because Frazier contracted Covid but went on to place sixth at the Olympics and unexpectedly became the first U.S. team to win a pairs’ world title since 1979. Their experiences on the Stars on Ice Tour led them to reconsider.
“It made sense on our timeline to move on,” Knierim told me in September. “We had done everything we could in two years.
“Yet it felt like it could be sad or disappointing to end a really talented career together so soon. Being on tour had opened our eyes to how in synch and unified we were on the ice. So there was a little bit of curiosity, a feeling of ‘What else are we capable of?’”
Their personal circumstances have changed during the course of this season. Chris Knierim starts work Thursday as skating director of a rink in the Chicago suburbs, and the Knierims recently bought a house in that area.
Knierim and Frazier have been training at a rink in Irvine, California. Should they decide to continue as competitors after this season, it would almost certainly entail a move to Chicago for Frazier.
Knierim insisted her house purchase was not an indication of what her plans with Frazier are.
“Right now, we are staying the course, based in Irvine through the world championships (in late March),” Knierim said before winning her fifth U.S. title.
“We do have some changes ahead of us. But I’d hate to jump ahead and say yes or no to next season. We learned that last season.”
Frazier spoke Saturday of reflecting throughout this season about their personal journeys and their partnership, the kind of reflection that often accompanies doing something for the last time.
“We just are trying to soak it in as if it could be your last, but the future is unknown,” Frazier said.
Knierim and Frazier prevailed Saturday with the largest winning margin, 31.11 points, in the 18 years that the International Judging System has been used at nationals.
They saved several points due to her quick thinking.
After Frazier put his hand to the ice on the triple toe loop that was to open a triple-double-double-jump combination, Knierim saw that her partner was going to follow with only a single jump and followed suit. It led to the delightful oddity of side-by-side single toe loops.
Nicely executed ones, too.
Philip Hersh, who has covered figure skating at every Winter Olympics since 1980, is a special contributor to NBCSports.com.
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Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’ On Record-Breaking Box Office Spree – Deadline
Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan is back, and in a big way, as his action-packed espionage pic Pathaan has been breaking records for a Hindi title since debuting Wednesday in India and overseas. This also ends a lengthy hiatus from the big screen as a lead for SRK, and gives a boost to Bollywood which has had a rough run of late.
Through Friday, the Yash Raj Films title has grossed 313 crore ($39M) globally. That makes it already the biggest opening weekend of a Bollywood title ever worldwide, with more to be added today and tomorrow. Expectations are that it ends up with around $40M in India through Sunday and $65M+ global which would land it among the top starts for any Indian title alongside RRR, Baahubali 2 and KGF 2.
Per Yash Raj, Pathaan has also set other new records: it is the fastest Hindi film to cross 300 crore (36.8M) worldwide and the first Hindi film to collect over 300 crore gross during the launch session.
On Friday, Pathaan raked in 39.25 crore net/47 crore gross ($4.8M/$5.77M) — Indian box office reporting is not centralized which makes for some confusion. Meanwhile, its overseas gross on Friday was $5.3M, for a running cume of $13.7M through Friday.
Akshaye Widhani, CEO of Yash Raj Films, said, “It is incredible that Pathaan has registered the biggest all-time opening in India and overseas… Pathaan has been blessed by Indians across the globe and what is happening with this film is unprecedented and historic.”
In the film, which also stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, SRK plays the titular spy who takes on the leader of a group of mercenaries who have nefarious plans to target his homeland.
When it bowed on Wednesday, Pathaan logged the biggest Day 1 ever for a Hindi film in India at 57 crore ($7M), and did so on a non-holiday. This gave SRK his biggest opening at home (as well as globally), same goes for Abraham while it was Padukone’s highest first-day gross ever in India. It was also tops for Yash Raj and director Siddharth Anand, in India and worldwide. Further, IMAX nabbed its biggest opening day ever for an Indian film on Wednesday.
Outside India, Pathaan, part of producer Aditya Chopra’s ambitious spy universe, logged the biggest opening day for an Indian film in the UK.
Through Day 2, Thursday (Republic Day in India), the total global box office rose to 219.6 crore ($27M). In India, Thursday anointed Pathaan as the first Hindi film to top the 70 crore net ($8.6M) collection on a single day.
We’ll update on Sunday.
Record-Breaking Signal From Distant Galaxy Is Furthest of Its Kind Ever Detected : ScienceAlert
Hydrogen is a key building block of the cosmos. Whether stripped down to its charged core, or piled into a molecule, the nature of its presence can tell you a lot about the Universe’s features on the largest of scales.
For that reason astronomers are very interested in detecting signals from this element, wherever it can be found.
Now the light signature of uncharged, atomic hydrogen has been measured further from Earth than ever before, by some margin. The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India has picked up a signal with a lookback time – the time between the light being emitted and being detected – of a huge 8.8 billion years.
That gives us an exciting glimpse of some of the earliest moments in the Universe, which is currently estimated to be in the region of 13.8 billion years old.
“A galaxy emits different kinds of radio signals,” says cosmologist Arnab Chakraborty, from McGill University in Canada. “Until now, it’s only been possible to capture this particular signal from a galaxy nearby, limiting our knowledge to those galaxies closer to Earth.”
In this case, the radio signal emitted by atomic hydrogen is a light wave with a length of 21 centimeters. Long waves aren’t very energetic, nor is the light intense, making it difficult to detect at a distance; the previous record lookback time stood at a mere 4.4 billion years.
Due to the vast distance it traveled before being intercepted by the GMRT, the 21 centimeter emission line had been stretched by expanding space to 48 centimeters, a phenomenon described as the redshifting of light.
The team used gravitational lensing to detect the signal, which originates from a distant star-forming galaxy called SDSSJ0826+5630. Gravitational lensing is where light is magnified as it follows the curving space surrounding a massive object that sits between our telescopes and the original source, effectively acting as a huge lens.
“In this specific case, the signal is bent by the presence of another massive body, another galaxy, between the target and the observer,” says astrophysicist Nirupam Roy, from the Indian Institute of Science.
“This effectively results in the magnification of the signal by a factor of 30, allowing the telescope to pick it up.”
The results of this study will give astronomers hope for being able to make other similar observations in the near future: the distances and lookback times that were previously off limits are very much now within reason. If the stars align, that is.
Atomic hydrogen is formed as hot, ionized gas from the surroundings of a galaxy starts to fall onto the galaxy, cooling down along the way. Eventually, it turns into molecular hydrogen, and then into stars.
Being able to look back so far in time can teach us more about how our own galaxy formed in the beginning, as well as leading astronomers towards a better understanding of how the Universe behaved when it was just getting started.
These latest findings will “open up exciting new possibilities for probing the cosmic evolution of neutral gas with existing and upcoming low-frequency radio telescopes in the near future,” write the researchers in their published paper.
The research has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.