As part of Star Wars Celebration — happening right now in Anaheim, CA — Twitter has teamed with Star Wars: The Force Awakens to create emoji exclusive to the social media site.
According to a press release, multiple emoji will be released, but the first three were unveiled today at Star Wars Celebration:
Here’s how it works: Tweeters who post hashtags with “keywords associated with specific Star Wars characters and legacy themes will see a small emoji-like icon automatically appended to the end of the text of the tag, embedded within the Tweet.” Here’s an exemple:
Michelle MacLaren, who has directed episodes for Breaking Bad and even Game of Thrones, left DC’s Wonder Woman feature on Monday, citing “creative differences,” a reason that could mean almost anything.
Now, just three days later, director Patty Jenkins has signed on to take over.
Patty Jenkins.
Jenkins was initially attached to Thor: The Dark World, but that ultimately fell through (not without controversy, as well). Jenkins first gained fame in 2003 when she wrote and directed the award-winning Monster, starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. Jenkins has also worked on Entourage and Arrested Development.
Gal Gadot is still attached to star and a 2017 release remains intact.
Megan Healy enjoys playing videos games as a pastime, and she also happens to enjoy sewing, so she decided to combine her passions to create unique comforters to please the gamer crowd. Here are a few of our favorites from her collection.
This Green Goblin Silicone mask from the folks over at Composite Effects is one of the most awesome and detailed masks of the character I’ve seen online. If it wouldn’t be for the $600 price tag, I’d get one right away, but unfortunately, with 3 kids, I don’t have that much to put on a mask!
Pluto is a reddish color. Until now that was largely an assumption, but a new probe photo confirms that is indeed the case.
The New Horizons probe has just taken its first photo of Pluto, as shown above. It’s a bit blurry, which is excusable as it was taken from 115 million kilometers away. Much better images will follow as it approaches Pluto and passes within 7,750 miles on July 14. That fly-by will complete a full house of space probes visiting the nine major orbiting bodies of the solar system.
Of course photos of Pluto do already exist thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, but those shots are actually captured as monochrome data. The colors are added artificially. In some cases they are assigned to simulate what astronomers believe the human eye would see if it had the same level of magnification as the telescope. In other cases the chosen colors aren’t intended to reflect reality, but instead used to enhance distinctive features or highlight features that wouldn’t be visible to the human eye.
The picture also depicts Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, which is clearly darker than the dwarf planet. New Horizons will also image Charon, answering questions about its atmosphere and possible “interior ocean.”
Alan Stern, the principal investigator for the project, was not exactly understated in a NASA news release, noting “This is pure exploration; we’re going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!”
Indeed, the project has expanded significantly since it began in 2001 with the intention of exploring Pluto and Charon, which at the time was the only known moon of Pluto. Two more moons were discovered before the probe launched, with a further two discovered while it has been en route.
The plan is to capture so much data during the fly past that only around one percent will be sent back to Earth before New Horizons starts moving away from Pluto. The most important data will come back first, but it will take 16 months to transmit everything.
Futurama was an awesome show, and one that has a cult following that it truly deserves. But as much as us fans truly know about the show, there is a great deal we don’t, and finding stuff out only makes our love for it stronger. Here are 10 cool facts about Futurama you may not have known.
