The Venus–Jupiter conjunction occurs August 11–13, 2025, with its closest approach on August 12 at about 0.86° apart. Venus will shine around magnitude -4.0 and Jupiter around -1.8 to -2 during the pairing. The pair sits about 35° from the Sun, enabling viewing in a dark dawn sky. Observers should view about 45 minutes to…
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Sept. 7, 2025 – Corn Moon full moon coincides with a total lunar eclipse (Blood Moon) visible in Asia, Africa, and Australia. Oct. 6–7, 2025 – Harvest Moon is a near-perigee supermoon, peaking around 11:48 PM EDT, with the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival celebrated across China and Asia. Nov. 5, 2025 – Beaver Moon is a…
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The Beaver Moon occurs on November 5, 2025, with peak illumination at 13:19 GMT (8:19 a.m. EST). At peak, the Moon will be about 356,980 km (221,818 miles) from Earth, roughly 7.9% closer and about 16% brighter than an average full Moon. It’s a supermoon—the biggest and brightest full Moon of 2025, and the closest…
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Grok Imagine is xAI’s image and video generator on X, offering a built-in “Spicy” mode that can generate adult content. Grok’s Spicy mode has been able to produce NSFW clips of female public figures such as Taylor Swift, Melania Trump, and Scarlett Johansson, while reports claim it refuses to create nude content of men. The…
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Peak illumination occurs on Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 3:55 a.m. EDT (07:55 GMT), with the Moon opposite the Sun in Capricornus near Deneb Algedi and fully illuminated toward Earth. The full Moon will be visible for two nights, rising near sunset on August 8 and August 9, with New York City at about 8:03…
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In preclinical tests on diabetic mice, a single application of a hydrogel-based “smart” wound dressing achieved 90% wound closure in 12 days by silencing thrombospondin-1 with microRNA-loaded extracellular vesicles. The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI directly imaged a gas-giant planet roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 2 AU, about 4…
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NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov completed a 146-day mission with a splashdown off the California coast at 11:33 a.m. ET on Aug. 9, 2025, the first crewed West Coast splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. China completed the first full-scale test of the Lanyue (“Embrace the Moon”) crewed…
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A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise…
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Midjourney released v6 in 2024 and v7 in early 2025, delivering improved prompt accuracy, higher photorealism, and new text-to-video and 3D capabilities. DALL·E 3 is integrated with ChatGPT (via GPT-4) to expand and optimize prompts, and offers a vivid vs natural style toggle plus an HD mode via API. Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) released in…
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In June 2025 Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand as CEO and announced a 60-day action plan to improve memory, relax the safety filter, and add creator tools, while Google licensed Character.AI’s LLM and took a stake, valuing the company at about $2.5–$3 billion. Character.AI launched official iOS and Android apps in 2023, logged 1.7 million installs…
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