Gas giant, second-largest in the Solar System
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has opened strongly, with critics praising its visual scale and memory-driven focus. The film, shot in IMAX across six countries, reframes Homer’s tale around Odysseus’ determination and the cost of action. Box office and critical reception signal a sharp convergence of cinema and classical myth in a modern spectacle.
Scientists have captured the Sun’s surface at unprecedented resolution with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and other instruments and have identified widespread Kelvin–Helmholtz vortices—500–2,000km spirals of magnetised plasma. The team has linked these instabilities to how magnetic energy cascades to smaller scales and feeds flares and coronal mass ejections that produce space weather.
The tomb of Yunmen, a high-ranking official, has been discovered at Saqqara, dating to Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi’s reign in Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty. Archaeologists describe two chapels and vibrant paintings, with the discovery framed as part of a broader push to boost tourism.