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<ul><li>The last <keyword id="592509" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Super-Moon">Super Moon</keyword> of 2020 is set to rise on Thursday, May 7, this week.</li><li>Tonight the Moon will be just 2% away from being a full-blown Super Moon, appearing larger than average in the sky.</li><li>The Full Moon in May is also called the ‘Flower’ Moon or the ‘Vesak’ Moon and coincides with the celebration of <keyword id="160011" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Buddha-Purnima">Buddha Purnima</keyword>.</li></ul>This week is your last chance to grab a view of a <keyword id="9176967" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="super-full-moon">Super Full Moon</keyword> this year. The Super ‘Flower’ Moon, set to rise on May 7, will be the last of the Super Moons we’ll see this year. Astronomers recommend catching the view right after sunset, as the Moon is rising over the horizon. According to NASA, the Moon will visible in its full glory for a total of three days. So, even if you look up at the sky tonight — anytime after 5:51 pm IST — the waxing gibbous Moon will be a wonderful sight only 2% away from being at its largest tomorrow evening. <div type="image" title="supermoon_ISS_edited" msid="75578460" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this image of a Super Moon from on board the International Space Station in 2016&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> ‘Flower’ Power Full Super Moon Moon The May Moon gets its nickname from spring in the US since flowers are in abundance as spring kicks in. Similarly, it’s also called the Vesak Moon in India given that it comes during the harvest season, according to the Maine Farmer’s Almanac published in the 1930s. In some parts of the country, it’s also when people celebrate Buddha Purnima to commemorate the life of Gautam Buddha. In other parts of the world, May’s Moon is also referred to as the Corn Planting Mooon and the Milk Moon. Super Moon origins For those unfamiliar with the concept of Super Moons, it’s when the Moon is at its closest to the Earth — its perigee. Because is it at its closest, a Super Full Moon also appears to be 16% brighter than the average Full Moon. <div type="image" title="supermoon_LRAO_edited" msid="75578524" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;An image of the moon taken by NASA&amp;#39;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is shown in two halves to illustrate the difference in the apparent size and brightness of the moon during a supermoon. The left half shows the apparent size of a supermoon (full moon at perigee), while the right half shows the apparent size and brightness of a micromoon (full moon at apogee). &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> And it’s not just the Moon that gets brighter during a Super Moon, the hides also get higher. Scientists estimate that the perigean spring tides are around 2 inches higher than regular spring tides. ‘Super Moon’ isn’t an official astronomical term, but one coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. According to him, it is whenever the Moon is more than 90% of its approach to Earth’s orbit. However, it is not clear why chose the 90% threshold as the cut-off — which is any distance closer than 360,000 kilometres from the centre of the Earth. <div type="image" title="supermoon" msid="75578588" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The Moon at perigee and apogee from the Earth&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> This year, there have been four Super Moons that graced the sky, April’s being the largest. In the coming year, there will only be two Super Moons — one in April and followed by another in May. Historically, the Super Moon on 14 November 2016 was the closest Super Moon that the Earth has seen since 1948. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/isro-may-quietly-gain-a-cost-advantage-despite-the-delay-in-gaganyaan-and-chandrayaan-3-says-an-expert/articleshow/75546034.cms">ISRO may quietly gain a cost advantage despite the delay in Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan 3, says an expert</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/heres-how-you-can-watch-the-biggest-asteroid-of-2020-live-as-it-zooms-past-the-earth/articleshow/75442421.cms">Here’s how you can watch the biggest asteroid of 2020 live as it zooms past the Earth</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/there-are-19-interstellar-asteroids-between-jupiter-and-neptune-and-even-computers-cant-predict-where-they-are-headed/articleshow/75350530.cms">There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune ⁠— and even computers can’t predict where they are headed</a>

The last Super Moon of the year set to rise on May 7 — the flower power wonder kicks off tonight

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="90051" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="lunar-eclipse">lunar eclipse</keyword> will coincide with a <keyword id="586617" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="supermoon">supermoon</keyword> early Wednesday morning.</li><li>Viewers in the western US will see the moon take on a reddish hue - hence the nickname "<keyword id="2198098" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="blood-moon">blood moon</keyword>."</li><li>The astronomical event will also be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCROdt5Hi0">livestreamed</a>.</li></ul>The night sky could look a bit spooky on Wednesday, depending on your vantage point.A lunar eclipse will <a href="https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEdecade/LEdecade2021.html">peak at 7:14 a.m. ET</a> tomorrow, giving the moon a reddish hue. The event coincides with a supermoon - a full moon that happens when the moon is at the closest point in its orbit to <keyword id="6359982" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="earth">Earth</keyword>. Hence the nickname "super blood moon."The eclipse won't be visible everywhere, though: Only parts of North America, South America, Asia, and Oceania will be able to see it.The best viewing points in the US are Alaska and Hawaii, but most western states should have a decent view. Some people east of the Mississippi will be able to witness a partial lunar eclipse. But East Coasters probably won't see much.This will be 2021's only total lunar eclipse. The phenomenon occurs when the moon and <keyword id="24879" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sun">sun</keyword> are on opposite sides of the Earth, and the moon enters Earth's shadow. During that time, the moon doesn't get any direct sunlight, though it's still exposed to light filtered through Earth's atmosphere. When that light hits the moon's surface, it's reflected back with a red glow because air molecules in the atmosphere tend to scatter blue light.Supermoons, meanwhile, happen a few times a year at most. They're the biggest and brightest full moons of the year: about 7% bigger and 15% brighter, on average, than a typical full moon. Wednesday's full moon - which is also referred to as the "Flower Moon" because it appears in the spring - is the second and last supermoon of 2021. The first happened in April.The year's two supermoons are "virtually tied" in terms of size and brightness, according to NASA. But the upcoming full moon will be about 98 miles closer to Earth than the last, so technically it holds the record for the closest supermoon this year.<h2>West Coasters will need to wake up early </h2><div type="image" title="super Worm moon super moon" height="1410" width="2000" msid="82801230" hostid="261"></div>The moon will reach its perigee, the closest point in its orbit to Earth, tonight at 9:21 p.m. ET. At that point, it will be around 222,000 miles from Earth. (Usually, it's 240,000 miles away on average.)Then on Wednesday at around at 4:47 a.m. ET, the moon will enter the outer edge of Earth's shadow. The partial eclipse will begin less than an hour later, at 5:45 a.m. ET, then end at about 8:52 a.m. ET.The total eclipse is only visible for about 15 minutes, from 7:11 to 7:26 a.m. ET. That's around the time when the moon sets in Mexico, the western US and Canada, southern Chile and Argentina, western Peru, and most of Central America and Ecuador. It's the ideal window for viewing.<div type="image" title="super blood moon" height="576" width="1024" msid="82801231" hostid="261"></div>People in the eastern US and Canada can also view a partial eclipse just before the moon sets on Wednesday morning. Countries in the Asian Pacific Rim, including China and Russia, can view the eclipse just after moonrise. But the best views are from eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2021-may-26" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Timeanddate.com</a> offers a guide to when the eclipse is clearly visible in your area. It will also provide a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCROdt5Hi0">live stream</a> of the event starting at 5:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday.If you plan to watch outside, you'll want to find a high vantage point, since the moon will be low in the sky.

A 'super blood moon' will appear large and red in the sky on Wednesday. Here's how to spot the rare eclipse.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_LYNXNPEF2H1TF&amp;share=true">Lucy Nicholson/Reuters</a>A woman sits in a super bloom of poppies near Lake Elsinore, California.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Parts of Southern <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> are experiencing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rain-brings-2nd-california-super-bloom-in-2-years-2019-3">"super blooms" of flowers</a>.</li><li>Walker Valley and the city of Lake Elsinore, located about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, has an ongoing super bloom of orange poppies.</li><li>Tourists are clogging the valley's roads and cars in their efforts to see the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/flowers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flowers</a>.</li><li>DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 satellite <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/satellite-images" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photographed</a> the bursts of color and activity from space on Tuesday.</li></ul>The hot, dry hillsides of southern California are normally covered in drab desert scrub. But some of them harbor a colorful secret: Millions of flowers that wait for the perfect conditions to bloom.Over the past month, the just-right combination of ample rain in December and stable cooler temperatures arrived in Walker Canyon, which is located about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. This triggered a "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/california-desert-super-bloom-wildflowers-photos-2019-3">super bloom</a>" of dazzling orange poppy flowers that the area typically sees only once every 10 years.Hordes of tourists have since <a href="https://mashable.com/article/instagram-ruining-california-super-bloom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">descended upon</a> the nearby city of Lake Elsinore, filling the roads with traffic and stuffing the hillsides to get a perfect Instagram selfie with the flowers.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Lucy Nicholson/ReutersPeople walk in a super bloom of poppies in Lake Elsinore, California on February 27, 2019.</div></div></div>Meanwhile in space, the bursts of orange color - and miles' worth of cars - are so dense that the WorldView-2 satellite owned by DigitalGlobe easily spotted the scene from about 480 miles above the planet."DigitalGlobe collected a new set of images yesterday (March 19th) of the 'Superbloom' near Lake Elsinore, California," a company representative told Business Insider in an email. "The colorful satellite imagery shows the hillsides along Walker Canyon filled with blooming poppies as well as hundreds of cars parked nearby and people hiking along trails in the area."<h2>What California's orange super bloom looks like from space</h2>This photo taken by WorldView-2, which launched in October 2009, shows an overview of Walker Canyon (top) and Lake Elsinore (bottom).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Satellite image ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company</div></div></div>In the image below, the Walker Canyon hiking trail-head begins at left just north of Interstate 15.The on-ramps to the location shows scores of vehicles parked along the roadside.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Satellite image ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company</div></div></div>Zooming into the trail-head (center-left), people can be seen walking up the hills and toward patches of flowers.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Satellite image ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company</div></div></div>Northwest of the trail, and a couple of miles west of the cty of Perris, California, the orange-poppy super bloom appears especially lush with flowers.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Satellite image ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company</div></div></div>The bloom - and the surge of interest and visitors it has inspired - is expected to <a href="https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-to-see-californias-super-bloom">last about one more week</a>. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-moon-launch-israel-spaceil-morris-kahn-2019-2">SpaceX just launched the first private moon mission and it marks a new phase in space flight</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Satellites just photographed California's dazzling 'super bloom' of spring flowers from outer space

<ul><li>Eclipses and transits are spectacular events in the space happening when a celestial body covers another, partially or totally. </li><li>The two interesting eclipses viewable from the Earth are solar and lunar eclipses. </li><li>A <keyword id="860733" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="total-lunar-eclipse">total lunar eclipse</keyword> results when the central and darkest part of the Earth’s shadow known as umbra covers the entire surface of the Moon. </li></ul>Due to their rarity and spectacular nature, eclipses have always evoked the imaginations and interests of humans. Eclipses, also known as transits, happen when a celestial body partially or fully covers another during its movement. The two popular kinds of eclipses we can see from the Earth are solar and lunar eclipses. How does a <keyword id="90051" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="lunar-eclipse">lunar eclipse</keyword> happen? Moon is a satellite of the Earth and it goes around the earth once in a lunar month, roughly about 29.5 days. The Moon does not have natural light of its own. It glows only because of reflecting the Sun’s light. When the Earth comes in between the Moon and the Sun, its shadow blocks the Sun’s rays lighting up the Moon and hence a lunar eclipse happens. A lunar eclipse can happen only on a full Moon day since for a lunar eclipse to happen, the Moon, the Earth and the Sun must be aligned in a straight line. What is a total lunar eclipse? Eclipses can be total, partial or penumbral. When only a part of the Earth’s shadow covers the Moon, we can see a partial lunar eclipse. If the Moon travels through the penumbral (faint) part of the Earth’s shadow, a penumbral lunar eclipse happens. Total lunar eclipse happens when the central and the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow blocks the Sun’s light from reaching the Moon in entirety. In this process, the total surface of the Moon will become invisible or deeply shaded in red for a few minutes. May 26, 2021 will see a total lunar eclipse The first eclipse of the year 2021 will be a lunar eclipse happening on May 26, 2021. This lunar eclipse can be seen from India, south Asia, east Asia, Australia, and much of North America, South America, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The May 26, 2021 lunar eclipse takes place within a few hours of the Moon reaching the closest point to the Earth. Hence, a spectacular show called a Super Flower <keyword id="2198098" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="blood-moon">Blood Moon</keyword> will result. The tetrad phenomenon Including the lunar eclipse on May 26, there will be four big lunar eclipses in 2021 and 2022. Three of these eclipses will be total lunar eclipses while the one on November 18-19 in 2021 will be a partial one. However, it will also be a very deep one, making it an almost total eclipse. This is called the tetrad phenomenon. The astronomical term for total eclipses Total lunar eclipses happen only on Full Moon days when the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon are aligned in a straight line. Astronomy calls this kind of alignment as syzygy, the term derived from Greek language meaning ‘paired together’.

A total lunar eclipse explained, and you can see one soon enough

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It's that time of year again! For those in North America, the Harvest Moon will look brightest and fullest at sunset on Monday night, Sept. 8.
The Harvest Moon is the name for the full moon that is closest to the autumnal equinox, or the official start of fall, on Sept. 22. Traditionally, every full moon has special nickname that says something about the season or time of year in which it appears. For example, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-february-snow-moon-2013-2">Snow Moon</a> happens in February during winter and the Flower Moon is in May during spring. Before electricity, moonlight was crucial for farmers who had to work after sundown, especially in early autumn when many crops are ready to be harvested. For that reason, the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox was called the "Harvest Moon." The Harvest Moon can come either two weeks before or two weeks the autumnal equinox. This year it's a bit early.
But the Harvest Moon is special for another reason. Typically, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each day throughout the year. But when the full moon occurs near the fall equinox, the gaps between moonrises are shorter. The moon rises only about 30 minutes later each night, appearing at sunset. This has to do with the moon's path, which makes a narrow angle with the horizon at the beginning of autumn. Not only does the moon rise earlier than usual in the evening, but this happens for several nights in a row - before and after the full moon - resulting in three consecutive days of the moon appearing at nearly the same time.
Both of these events give the illusion that the Harvest Moon is bigger, brighter, and closer, even though it's not. The moon is simply closest to the horizon at sunset, when most people are looking for the Harvest Moon. This year, the <a href="http://earthsky.org/space/harvest-moon-2#" target="_blank">Harvest Moon will appear even bigger than usual because it's a supermoon</a>, "when "the moon turns full less than one day after reaching lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth for the month," according to EarthSky.
Also, when the moon is near the horizon, it must pass through more dust and cloud particles that scatter blue light and only let red pass through. That's why the Harvest Moon usually looks yellow, orange, or red.
If you can't step outside to grab an eyeful of the moon, the <a href="http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/the-super-harvest-moon" target="_blank">Slooh Space Camera</a> will be showing real-time images of the Harvest Moon online. The event starts on Monday, Sept. 8 at 9:30 p.m. EST.

The Super Harvest Moon Is Coming

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-2024-nominations-winners-list-2024-1">The 96th annual Academy Awards</a> are on Sunday.</li><li>From Best Picture to Best Actress, gamblers will be placing bets on movie category winners.</li></ul>The stars won't be the only people with something on the line at the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-cost-red-carpet-outfits-2023-3">96th annual Academy Awards</a> on Sunday.With <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sports-betting-industry-predictions-top-execs-2023-12">betting more accessible</a> — and legal — than ever before, movie fans and living-room gamblers will be trying their luck.There are seven states where you can legally put money on the various trophies this year — and in Ontario, you can go even further and place bets on everything from Jimmy Kimmel's monologue to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-movie-margot-robbie-has-been-in-ranked-2020-2">Margot Robbie's</a> red carpet look. Then, there are the thousands of more casual Oscars pools among friends and colleagues.While the exact amount of money that bettors are expected to place isn't publicly available, it'll likely be closer to the sum wagered on a regular season NBA game than on the Super Bowl, which the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.americangaming.org/new/record-68-million-americans-to-wager-23-1b-on-super-bowl-lviii/">American Gambling Association</a> estimated was $23.1 billion, Bill Speros, a senior betting analyst for <a target="_blank" href="http://Bookies.com">Bookies.com</a>, told Business Insider.That said, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-2024-best-picture-nominees-ranked-2024-1">this year's Oscars are expected</a> to attract more speculators than recently thanks to box office hits "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer.""Since Oscar betting became legal, this year is really the first time you have two movies that a lot of people have seen," Speros said. He added that "Oppenheimer" is the favorite to win the night's top prize, with 62% of all the money bet on best picture on DraftKings placed on the film.Still, the Academy Awards can be harder to game than sports, which have a bevy of statistics for people to pore over. The winners are chosen by the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thewrap.com/how-many-oscars-voters-2023/">9,797 voting members</a> of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."With Oscar betting, there's really no data to break down because you are betting on someone's opinion," Speros said. "There have been <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-2024-biggest-nominations-snubs-2024-1">upsets at the Oscars</a>."The little data available — like who won the SAG Awards and BAFTAs — is taken into account by experts on GoldDerby, a website dedicated to predicting the results of Hollywood's award shows, to form their predictions. Last year, the group was right on all but four categories: best actor (they thought Austin Butler would get the golden statue for "Elvis," but it went to Brendan Fraser for "The Whale"), best costume design, best makeup and hairstyling, and best production design.Below is GoldDerby's take on who will win in 2024 — and the odds — as of March 7.Just remember: Place any wager at your own risk."This is gambling," Speros said. "There's no such thing as a sure thing."<h3>Best picture</h3>Winner: "Oppenheimer" Odds: 6/1 Nominees: "American Fiction" "Anatomy of a Fall" "Barbie" "The Holdovers" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" "Past Lives" "Poor Things" "The Zone of Interest"<div type="image" title="Lily Gladstone attends the 2024 Golden Globes." height="1500" width="2000" msid="108327268" hostid="261"></div><h3>Best actress in a leading role</h3>Winner: Lily Gladstone, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Odds: 10/3 Nominees: Annette Bening, "Nyad" Lily Gladstone, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Sandra Hüller, "Anatomy of a Fall" Carey Mulligan, "Maestro" Emma Stone, "Poor Things"<h3>Best actor in a leading role</h3>Winner: Cillian Murphy, "Oppenheimer" Odds: 10/3 Nominees: Bradley Cooper, "Maestro" Colman Domingo, "Rustin" Paul Giamatti, "The Holdovers" Cillian Murphy, "Oppenheimer" Jeffrey Wright, "American Fiction"<h3>Best director</h3>Winner: Christopher Nolan, "Oppenheimer" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: Justine Triet, "Anatomy of a Fall" Martin Scorsese, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Christopher Nolan, "Oppenheimer" Yorgos Lanthimos, "Poor Things" Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest"<div type="image" title="Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in &quot;The Holdovers.&quot;" height="2000" width="3000" msid="108327270" hostid="261"></div><h3>Best actress in a supporting role</h3>Winner: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, "The Holdovers" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: Emily Blunt, "Oppenheimer" Danielle Brooks, "The Color Purple" America Ferrera, "Barbie" Jodie Foster, "Nyad" Da'Vine Joy Randolph, "The Holdovers"<h3>Best actor in a supporting role</h3>Winner: Robert Downey Jr., "Oppenheimer" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: Sterling K. Brown, "American Fiction" Robert De Niro, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Robert Downey Jr., "Oppenheimer" Ryan Gosling, "Barbie" Mark Ruffalo, "Poor Things"<h3>Best adapted screenplay</h3>Winner: "American Fiction" Odds: 69/20 Nominees: "American Fiction" "Barbie" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things" "The Zone of Interest"<h3>Best original screenplay</h3>Winner: "Anatomy of a Fall" Odds: 82/25 Nominees: "Anatomy of a Fall" "The Holdovers" "Maestro" "May December" "Past Lives"<h3>Best cinematography</h3>Winner: "Oppenheimer" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: "El Conde" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things"<h3>Best production design</h3>Winner: "Barbie" Odds: 71/20 Nominees: "Barbie" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Napoleon" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things"<h3>Best sound</h3>Winner: "Oppenheimer" Odds: 10/3 Nominees: "The Creator" "Maestro" "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" "Oppenheimer" "The Zone of Interest"<h3>Best film editing</h3>Winner: "Oppenheimer" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: "Anatomy of a Fall" "The Holdovers" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things"<h3>Best costume design</h3>Winner: "Barbie" Odds: 69/20 Nominees: "Barbie" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Napoleon" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things"<div type="image" title="Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein holding a cigarette" height="1246" width="2070" msid="108327273" hostid="261"></div><h3>Best makeup and hairstyling</h3>Winner: "Maestro" Odds: 82/25 Nominees: "Golda" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things" "Society of the Snow"<h3>Best visual effects</h3>Winner: "Godzilla Minus One" Odds: 10/3 Nominees: "The Creator" "Godzilla Minus One" "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" "Napoleon"<h3>Best international feature film</h3>Winner: "The Zone of Interest" (United Kingdom) Odds: 16/5 Nominees: "Io Capitano" (Italy) "Perfect Days" (Japan) "Society of the Snow" (Spain) "The Teachers' Lounge" (Germany) "The Zone of Interest" (United Kingdom)<h3>Best animated feature film</h3>Winner: "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" Odds: 10/3 Nominees: "The Boys and the Heron" "Elemental" "Nimona" "Robot Dreams" "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"<h3>Best live-action short film</h3>Winner: "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" Odds: 82/25 Nominees: "The After" "Invincible" "Knight of Fortune" "Red, White, and Blue" "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar"<h3>Best animated short film</h3>Winner: "War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko" Odds: 69/20 Nominees: "Letter to a Pig" "Ninety-Five Senses" "Our Uniform" "Pachyderm" "War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko"<h3>Best documentary feature film</h3>Winner: "20 Days in Mariupol" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: "Bobi Wine: The People's President" "The Eternal Memory" "Four Daughters" "To Kill a Tiger" "20 Days in Mariupol"<h3>Best documentary short film</h3>Winner: "The ABCs of Book Banning" Odds: 17/5 Nominees: "The ABCs of Book Banning" "The Barber of Little Rock" "Island in Between" "The Last Repair Shop" "Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó"<h3>Best original score</h3>Winner: "Oppenheimer" Odds: 16/5 Nominees: "American Fiction" "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things"<h3>Best original song</h3>Winner: "What Was I Made For?" — Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell ("Barbie") Odds: 82/25 Nominees: "The Fire Inside" — Diane Warren ("Flamin' Hot") "I'm Just Ken" — Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt ("Barbie") "It Never Went Away" — Jon Batiste ("American Symphony") "Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)" — Scott George ("Killers of the Flower Moon") "What Was I Made For?" — Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell ("Barbie")

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>2023's top movies, "Barbie," "Oppenheimer," and" "Mario," weren't sequels or remakes.</li><li>Meanwhile, Disney's Marvel and DC saw some disappointing turnouts.</li></ul>Eight years ago, Steven Spielberg predicted that the superhero movie would one day go <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-movies-steven-spielberg-kate-capshaw-7b4d35d049ff4dc0b6ffe94c4a3fa7ed">"the way of the Western."</a>Spielberg's comments caused a widespread stir at the time. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-review-2015-4">"Avengers: The Age of Ultron"</a> was then one of the year's biggest movies. The following year would bring "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/captain-america-civil-war-movie-commentary-facts-2016-9">Captain America: Civil War,</a>" "Deadpool" and "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice." The superhero movie was in high gear, and showing no signs of slowing down.But Spielberg's point was that nothing is forever in the movie business. These cycles, Spielberg said, "have a finite time in popular culture." And the maker of "E.T.," "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/jurassic-park-cast-then-and-now-2018-6">Jurassic Park</a>" and "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/steven-spielberg-jaws-shocked-hit-shark-looked-dumb-2023-2">Jaws</a>" might know a thing or two about the ebbs and flows of pop-culture taste.As 2023 draws to a close, no one is sounding the death knell of the superhero movie. The Walt Disney Co.'s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-details-to-know-2023-4">"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"</a> made $845.6 million worldwide and Sony's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-trailer-tom-holland-reference-2023-4">"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"</a> ($691 million) was one of the most acclaimed films of the year. Marvel is still mightier than any other brand in the business.But more than ever before, there are chinks in the armor of the superhero movie. Its dominance in popular culture is no longer quite so assured. A cycle may be turning, and a new one dawning.For the first time in more than two decades, the top three movies at the box office didn't include one sequel or remake: "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/all-upcoming-movies-mattel-toys-barbie-2023-7">Barbie</a>," "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/super-mario-bros-first-video-game-movie-highst-gross-billion-2023-5">The Super Mario Bros. Movie</a>" and "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oppenheimer-fact-vs-fiction-what-the-movie-got-right-wrong-2023-7">Oppenheimer</a>." The last time that happened was 2001, when "Harry Potter and the<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/details-missed-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-2020-9"> Sorcerer's Stone</a>," "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/fun-facts-shrek-movie-2019-2">Shrek</a>" and "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/monsters-inc-cool-and-unique-details-you-never-saw">Monsters, Inc.</a>" topped the box office.No, it's not exactly a lineup of originality like, say, 1973, when "The Exorcist, "The Sting" and "American Graffiti" led all movies in ticket sales. "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/barbie-movie-2023-fun-facts-details-2023-7">Barbie</a>" and "The Super Mario Bros.," based on some of the most familiar brands in the world, will generate spinoffs and sequels of their own.But it's hard not to sense a shift in moviegoing, one that might have reverberations for years to come for Hollywood."There's an inflection point in 2023," says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore. " <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-double-feature-3f2cebb6720fb79b8584976f9e97eca0">Barbenheimer</a> is just one part of that story. Audiences, they want to be challenged. I think the tried and true is not necessarily working."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-movie-could-recoup-huge-marketing-spend-opening-weekend-2023-7">Greta Gerwig's "Barbie,"</a> from Warner Bros., was the year's runaway hit, with more than $1.4 billion in ticket sales worldwide. It was a blockbuster like none seen before: an anarchic comedy that set a string of records for a movie directed by a woman.Nearly as unprecedented was the success of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-oppenheimer-same-release-date-reason-christopher-nolan-superstitious-2023-12">Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer,"</a> a three-hour drama that nearly grossed $1 billion. As different as it and "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-movie-set-win-barbenheimer-box-office-battle-with-oppenheimer-2023-7">Barbie</a>" were, they were each <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-box-office-d07dce60b4726b2c168c228e1a405c70">original feats of cinema</a> and personal statements by its directors.At the same time, the Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel, a hit-making machine like none other in movie history, faltered like never before. "The Marvels" <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/marvels-box-office-disney-brie-larson-392f34978d96a5a2bca5e32717d888e8">marked a new low for the Marvel Cinematic Universe</a>, collecting $200 million globally. DC Studios, in the midst of a revamp, saw disappointing results for "The Flash" and "Blue Beetle" before watching <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/box-office-aquaman-b11c243a659b1b7ad826d5a8298c5855#:~:text=Including%20international%20estimates%20at%20%2480,of%20its%20box%20office%20internationally.">"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" sink to a $28.1 million debut.</a><div type="image" title="A photo of Jason Mamoa as Aquaman" height="2160" width="3840" msid="106459658" hostid="261" sizebytes="254178"></div>Both Marvel and DC have already made moves to right their ships. Bob Iger, Disney's chief executive, has called turning around Marvel his top priority. He said the superhero studio has suffered greatly from too many films and series leading to "diluted quality." The James Gunn, Peter Safran-led DC, meanwhile, won't officially launch until 2025 with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/james-gunn-superman-legacy-cast-2023-7">"Superman Legacy."</a>In the meantime, something else will have to fill the void. That was a theme in 2023, too, when <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/hollywood-strike-sag-aftra-wga-writers-actors-1960-2023-7">the writers and actors strikes</a> marred release plans and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/fall-2023-movies-tv-affected-sag-wga-strikes">forced the delay of several films</a> including Warner's "Dune: Part Two," Sony's next "Ghostbusters" movie and MGM's "Challengers."Those disruptions will continue in 2024. Analysts aren't expecting a banner year for Hollywood in part because films like the next "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/how-tom-cruise-mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-stunts-2023-8">Mission: Impossible</a>" film and the "Spider-Verse" sequel, both delayed by the strikes, won't make their original dates.Overall ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters for 2023 are expected to reach about $9 billion, according to Comscore, an improvement of about 20% from 2022. The industry is still trying to regain its pre-pandemic footing, when ticket sales regularly surpassed $11 billion. Output of wide-releases in 2023 (88) still trailed those in 2019 (108) by 18.5%.Hollywood is still coaxing moviegoers back to theaters — something "Barbie," "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/oppenheimer-ending-explained-by-director-christopher-nolan-2023-7">Oppenheimer</a>" and "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-smashes-records-top-animated-film-opening-2023-4">Mario</a>" went a long way to helping.<div type="image" title="A photo of Gabrielle Roitman, Kayla Seffing, Maddy Hiller and Casey Myer posing in front of an Oppenheimer poster." height="3624" width="5135" msid="106459659" hostid="261" sizebytes="1308546"></div>"It reinforced something that we've known for 100 years in the business: People like going to the shared experience out of the home," says Jeffrey Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. "They love being entertained. Movies are a good financial proposition and can bring in a mass audience.""It probably started with '<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-cast-dressed-like-characters-red-carpet-2023-4">Mario</a>' last April," adds Goldstein. "I think that showed audiences again that theaters are a fun place to be to. And it showed studios and content creators: Up your game."If 2023 is any guide, hits will come from increasingly unpredictable places.That was the case with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-eras-tour-movie-vs-real-life-best-worst-scenes-2023-10">"Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,"</a> a film released just two months after Swift's recorded concerts in <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-concert-films-a284a04596c6b71b3de7a9bcf9c83b7b">a first-of-its-kind distribution deal with AMC Theatres</a>. It grossed $250 million worldwide, and was followed by the similarly released "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/beyonce-renaissance-world-tour-movie-premiere-best-photos-lizzo-2023-11">another No. 1 debut.</a>More surprising was "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sound-of-freedom-deemed-box-office-hit-liberals-have-doubts-2023-7">Sound of Freedom</a>," a $15 million film from the independent Angel Studios, which matched Swift with $250 million worldwide. It was released with a unique "pay it forward" program that allowed people to donate tickets.Going into 2023, no one was betting "Sound of Freedom" would outgross "The Marvels" or that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/five-nights-at-freddys-cast-vs-video-game-characters-photos-2023-10">"Five Nights at Freddy's"</a> would have a bigger opening weekend than <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/indiana-jones-dial-of-destiny-harrison-ford-emotional-evolution-2023-7">"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."</a><div type="image" title="A photo of Teyonah Parris playing Captain Monica Rambeau in The Marvels." height="1716" width="3299" msid="106459660" hostid="261" sizebytes="77980"></div>"There are going to be examples of big-budget, traditional blockbusters that do well," says Dergarabedian. "But for every one of those, there have been two that failed. An audience that's finding a lot of interesting material on streaming is becoming more open to films like '<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/godzilla-minus-one-us-release-date-watch-tickets-2023-11">Godzilla Minus One</a>,' <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-india-4d04b6d032cabfc91b6d0beb6642c1ef">Indian cinema</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/box-office-hayao-miyazaki-boy-heron-godzilla-81158fbde74556aa7add3be4f594f4c6">Japanese anime</a>. There's a shift in audience taste and studios need to get a handle on this."That poses as much of a challenge as an opportunity to studios. If more-of-the-same no longer has quite the same appeal for moviegoers, an industry that for years has depended on sequels, prequels, reboots and remakes to make up the bulk of its profits may require new creativity.The Western didn't vanish all at once. After two decades of ubiquity, it began going out of style in the 1960s. And the Western, of course, continues to be rich territory for filmmakers. This year, 81-year-old <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/martin-scorsese-set-real-life-killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023-10">Martin Scorsese</a> made his first Western in "Killers of the Flower Moon," the three-hour-plus $200 million epic from Apple Studios.The superhero movie, likewise, won't ever die. But its heyday might have reached its <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/0a72e05fc40e406ca07079abc2249a7c">endgame.</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> is adding lots of new titles in June, including new seasons of "Lupin." </li><li>Original films like "The Ice Road," starring Liam Neeson, will also hit the streamer this month.</li><li>But some favorites like "Back to the Future" will be removed from the streaming service in June.</li></ul>Netflix just revealed the movies and <keyword id="6355065" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TV">TV</keyword> shows that will be coming to - and leaving - the site in June.New seasons of hit shows like "Lupin," a French thriller starring Omar Sy, and "Elite" will be premiering on the streaming service this month.Some original films will be added to Netflix in June, too, including "The Ice Road," starring Liam Neeson as a big-rig trucker. Still, fan favorites will also be leaving Netflix in June, like "Scarface" and all of the "Back to the Future" movies. Here's everything coming to and leaving Netflix in June. <div type="image" title="elite netflix" height="1328" width="1770" msid="83154104" hostid="261"></div><h2>Arriving in June</h2><h2>Available 6/1/21</h2>"Abduction""American Outlaws""Bad Teacher""Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know""CoComelon: A Sunny Day for Play""Cradle 2 the Grave""Flipped""Fools Rush In""Happy Endings: Season 1""Happy Endings: Season 2""Happy Endings: Season 3""I Am Sam""Love Jones""Million Dollar Baby""Ninja Assassin""Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Moon Jogen""Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Moon Kagen""Stand by Me""Starsky &amp; Hutch""Streets of Fire""Super Monsters: Once Upon a Rhyme""Swordfish""The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Season 1""The Best Man""The Big Lebowski""The Wedding Guest""The Wind""What Women Want"<h2>Available 6/2/21</h2>"2 Hearts""Alone: Season 7""Carnaval" - Netflix Film"Kim's Convenience: Season 5"<h2>Available 6/3/21</h2>"Alan Saldaña: Locked Up" - Netflix Comedy Special"Creator's File: GOLD" - Netflix Series"Dancing Queens" - Netflix Film"Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The <keyword id="6356021" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie">Movie</keyword>: Part 1/Part 2" - Netflix Film"Summertime: Season 2" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/4/21</h2>"Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet" - Netflix Documentary"Feel Good: Season 2" - Netflix Series"Sweet Tooth" - Netflix Series"Trippin' with the Kandasamys" - Netflix Film"Xtreme" - Netflix Film<h2>Available 6/5/21</h2>"Kitty Love: An Homage to Cats" - Netflix Documentary<h2>Available 6/7/21</h2>"Vampire Academy"<h2>Available 6/9/21</h2>"Awake" - Netflix Film"Fresh, Fried &amp; Crispy" - Netflix Series"LA's Finest: Season 2""Tragic Jungle" - Netflix FilmAvailable 6/10/21"A Haunted House 2""Camellia Sisters""Locombianos" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/11/21</h2>"Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce): Season 2" - Netflix Series"Lupin: Part 2" - Netflix Series"Skater Girl" - Netflix Film"Trese" - Netflix Anime"Wish Dragon" - Netflix Family<h2>Available 6/13/21</h2>"The Devil Below""Picture a Scientist"<h2>Available 6/14/21</h2>"Elite Short Stories" - Netflix Series<div type="image" title="Silver Linings Playbook" height="852" width="1139" msid="83154107" hostid="261"></div><h2>Available 6/15/21</h2>"FTA""Unwind Your Mind" - Netflix Interactive Experience"Let's Eat""Life of Crime""Power Rangers Dino Fury: Season 1""Rhyme Time Town: Season 2" - Netflix Family"Sir! No Sir!""Workin' Moms: Season 5" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/16/21</h2>"Lowriders""Penguin Town" - Netflix Documentary"Silver Skates" - Netflix Film<h2>Available 6/17/21</h2>"Black Summer: Season 2" - Netflix Series"The Gift: Season 3" - Netflix Series"Hospital Playlist: Season 2" - Netflix Series"Katla" - Netflix Series"Silver Linings Playbook"<h2>Available 6/18/21</h2>"A Family" - Netflix Film"Elite: Season 4" - Netflix Series"Fatherhood" - Netflix Film"Jagame Thandhiram" - Netflix Film"The Rational Life" - Netflix Series"The World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/19/21</h2>"Nevertheless" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/22/21</h2>"This Is Pop" - Netflix Documentary<h2>Available 6/23/21</h2>"Good on Paper" - Netflix Film"The House of Flowers: The Movie" - Netflix Film"Murder by the Coast" - Netflix Documentary"Too Hot to Handle: Season 2" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/24/21</h2>"Godzilla Singular Point" - Netflix Anime"The Naked Director: Season 2" - Netflix Series"The Seventh Day""Sisters on Track" - Netflix Documentary<h2>Available 6/25/21</h2>"The A List: Season 2" - Netflix Series"The Ice Road" - Netflix Film"Sex/Life" - Netflix Series<h2>Available 6/26/21</h2>"Wonder Boy" - Netflix Documentary<h2>Available 6/28/21</h2>"Killing Them Softly""The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement" - Netflix Anime<h2>Available 6/29/21</h2>"StarBeam: Season 4" - Netflix Family<h2>Available 6/30/21</h2>"America: The Motion Picture" - Netflix Film"Lying and Stealing""Sophie: A Murder in West Cork" - Netflix Documentary<div type="image" title="portlandia" height="897" width="1197" msid="83154110" hostid="261"></div><h2>Leaving in June</h2><h2>Leaving 6/1/21</h2>"Alone: Season 6""Mother Goose Club: Seasons 1-2"<h2>Leaving 6/4/21</h2>"Hannibal: Seasons 1-3"<h2>Leaving 6/6/21</h2>"Searching for Bobby Fischer"<h2>Leaving 6/9/21</h2>"Portlandia: Seasons 1-8"<h2>Leaving 6/17/21</h2>"Bob Lazar: Area 51 &amp; Flying Saucers"<h2>Leaving 6/21/21</h2>"Dark Skies"<h2>Leaving 6/26/21</h2>"The Secret Life of Pets 2"<h2>Leaving 6/27/21</h2>"20th Century Women""Tales of the City (1993): Season 1"<h2>Leaving 6/28/21</h2>"Bratz: The Movie"<div type="image" title="back to the future" height="1000" width="1333" msid="83154112" hostid="261"></div><h2>Leaving 6/30/21</h2>"30 Minutes or Less""A Bridge Too Far""Acts of Violence""Back to the Future""Back to the Future Part II""Back to the Future Part III""Bonnie and Clyde""Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs""Crazy, Stupid, Love""Enter the Dragon""Fiddler on the Roof""From Paris with Love""Gothika""Immortals""Invictus""Jason X""Leprechaun""Scarface""Tayo the Little Bus: Seasons 2-3""The Accountant of Auschwitz""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo""The Land Before Time""The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure""The Roommate""The Twilight Zone (Original Series): Seasons 1-5""Training Day""Twin Peaks: Seasons 1-2""Two Weeks Notice"

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<ul><li>China’s experimental spacecraft successfully landed back on Earth after orbiting the planet for 2 days and 20 hours.</li><li>The unmanned charter was a test for <keyword id="1064783" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="human-spaceflight">human spaceflight</keyword> for the country’s plans to set up its own space station by 2022.</li><li>The Indian Space Research Organisation (<keyword id="6358064" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="isro">ISRO</keyword>) has similar plans but a lot remains uncertain with the lockdown keeping the space agency’s scientists at home.</li></ul>China’s manned space program is well on its way to constructing a space station by 2022. Today (May 8), its next-gen spacecraft made a successful landing after orbiting the Earth for 2 days and 20 hours. India also has similar plans of setting up a space station but its fate remains uncertain with the current coronavirus lockdown in effect. <div type="image" title="rocket_new" msid="75621483" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Prototype of China&amp;#39;s new-generation manned spacecraft in the process of being hoisted&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> China’s capsule, which launched on May 6 abroad its brand new Long March-5B rocket, was confirmed to be ideal condition even after a small ‘anomaly’ earlier during the test. The China Manned Space Agency (<a href="http://en.cmse.gov.cn/news/202005/t20200506_46488.html">CMSA</a>) said the cabin structure within the spacecraft was perfectly intact as well. During its time in space, the spacecraft managed to complete a few experiments — like 3D printing — that will go a long way in helping China plan for its maiden human spaceflight. The plan is to eventually send astronauts into space to set up a space station by 2022, followed by a trip to the Moon. India has similar plans, with a similar deadline Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it has plans of setting up its own space station by 2022 so that it can conduct experiments in without the pressures of gravity. “It will be a smaller module [as compared to the International Space Station (ISS)], which would be mainly used to carry out microgravity experiments,” said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-space-station-plan-by-isro-plans-k-sivan/articleshow/69775780.cms">ISRO chairman K. Sivan in June last year.</a> Gaganyaan, the plan for India to send astronauts into space, was scheduled to take flight in December next year. Unmanned missions, like the one that China just concluded, were scheduled for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/isro-will-send-two-unmmaned-missions-into-space-before-gaganyaan/articleshow/73517340.cms">December 2020 and June 2021</a>. However, experts opine that there may be <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/isro-may-quietly-gain-a-cost-advantage-despite-the-delay-in-gaganyaan-and-chandrayaan-3-says-an-expert/articleshow/75546034.cms">delays given the current lockdown</a> which has restricted the space agency’s scientists to their homes. Even Sivan said he doesn’t know what the new timeline will look like unlike the lockdown comes to an end. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/isro-may-quietly-gain-a-cost-advantage-despite-the-delay-in-gaganyaan-and-chandrayaan-3-says-an-expert/articleshow/75546034.cms">ISRO may quietly gain a cost advantage despite the delay in Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan 3, says an expert</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/the-last-supermoon-of-the-year-set-to-rise-on-may-7-the-flower-power-wonder-kicks-off-tonight/articleshow/75578234.cms">The last Super Moon of the year set to rise on May 7 — the flower power wonder kicks off tonight</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/india-red-green-and-orange-zones-have-been-designed-wrong-say-experts/articleshow/75620266.cms">India’s red, green and orange zones have been designed wrong, say experts</a>

China’s unmanned spacecraft makes a successful return to Earth⁠— racing ahead of India on the path to having a space station

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>In lucid dreaming, every night offers up the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure-a dreamscape confined only by the limits of your imagination and entirely under your control.
The horizon-expanding results are often felt long after you've awoken. Which is why a growing number of LD practitioners aren't just having more fun in bed-they're using their dreams to get ahead.
I'm lost in the woods. It's nighttime. The light of a full moon shows me I'm surrounded by menacing-looking trees, curiously similar to the ones that pelted Dorothy with apples in The Wizard of Oz. Then I spot it, smack in the middle of the forest-a brightly lit office cubicle with a laptop inside. "That's funny," I say to myself. "You don't usually see office cubes in the woods." Suddenly it hits me: The cubicle is my dream sign, a signal to my subconscious that I'm actually asleep, that everything around me is a projection of my imagination. After weeks of practice, of studying ancient Tibetan dream techniques, of wearing a special sleep mask that flashed lights in my eyes in the middle of the night, of ingesting questionable subconsciousness-raising drugs purchased from untrustworthy sources over the Internet, I'm finally doing it. I'm having my first lucid dream.
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This clarity hits me even within my dream state. I'm so thrilled by the revelation, I plop myself down in the cubicle and start typing. Yes, I wrote this story in my sleep.
This is merely one manifestation of the state of being known as lucid dreaming. You're asleep. You're dreaming. But you're aware it's a dream-unconscious but conscious (or is it vice versa?). On the one hand, this is a common enough phenomenon-one study concluded that as many as 70 percent of people experience lucid dreaming at least once in their lifetime. On the other, the ability to have lucid dreams on demand can be a difficult skill to acquire.
A growing army of LD practitioners are training their sleeping brains to take maximum advantage of that lucid state, learning to control it in search of a mind-blowing natural trip. Imagine turning the inside of your head into the ultimate virtual-reality chamber, living out your deepest, most daring fantasies and desires, all without ever leaving your bed. Go ahead, fly to Zanzibar in your underwear. Play guitar like Jimi Hendrix-with Jimi Hendrix. Steer yourself not to a cubicle but to the corner office. Have sex with a supermodel. Or two supermodels. Literally anything you can imagine is possible in a lucid dream, because you have the keys to your subconscious.
Of course, the desire to control one's dreams is as old as dreaming itself, and unlocking the secret to lucid dreaming has long been a goal of philosophers, theologians, and scientists. Aristotle was said to have dabbled in it. Saint Augustine wrote about it. Eighth-century Buddhist monks devoted lifetimes to teaching a form of lucid dreaming known as dream yoga. Your hippie parents might have experimented with it at Esalen in the 1970s. But unlike many other New Age fads, lucid dreaming has a strong scientific foundation. And over the past 30 years, study after study has shown that lucid dreaming can have a profound impact on waking life. Researchers in Canada are using LD as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Sleep scientists in Germany are studying its applications for sports training-to improve both focus and performance in athletes. Closer to home, a doctor at a VA hospital in Los Angeles published a paper in January detailing the case of a patient with a 22-year history of chronic pain who cured himself overnight with a single lucid dream. "I'm no expert on lucid dreams," says Dr. Mauro Zappaterra. "But the man woke up with no pain. He said it was like his brain had shut down and rebooted. A few days later, he walks into the VA pharmacy and actually returns his medication-300 tabs of levorphanol. To me that's pretty convincing evidence."
Outside the scientific realm, lucid dreams serve as an idea lab for creative types: Actors and admen, inventors and game designers, fine artists, musicians, and filmmakers-like Michel Gondry and Guillermo del Toro-have practiced lucid dreaming. As the buzz about LD builds, it's gotten to the point where you can't stay up late drinking in the bar at the Chateau Marmont without overhearing a group of English indie musicians on their way home from Coachella going on and on about having lucid dreams in the desert or a starlet and a former professional athlete nearby gushing that LD is "better than TM."
There are now scores of lucid-dreaming websites offering online courses and dozens of LD-training apps on iTunes (one of which was downloaded more than 500,000 times in its first six weeks) promising to prepare your mind for dream flight. There are weeklong workshops in Hawaii, seminars in the Hamptons, and-the obligatory indicator of an incubating trend-TEDxTalks. And why not? Who wouldn't want to be "the producer, writer, director, and star of your dreams," as the promotional copy for one lucid-dreaming meet-up in New York City promised.
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"Yeah, it is becoming trendy," acknowledges Charlie Morley, a 30-year-old British lucid-dream teacher and the author of Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreams and Mindfulness of Dream &amp; Sleep (previously he was a rapper in a Buddhist hip-hop group). "But it's not just hipsters doing it. It's all sorts of people, because there's no equipment to buy, no club to join, no money you have to spend. Anybody can do it."
However, not everyone has the same aptitude for lucid dreaming. There are those who pick it up instantly-Morley taught himself at 16, with no training-zooming to the moon on their first trip, while lucidity-challenged dreamers plod along for months before achieving liftoff. The reasons elude scientists, though a recent-and perhaps unsurprising-study at MacEwan University in Canada discovered that gamers are more likely to experience lucid dreams than non-gamers ("Virtual reality is virtual reality," explains one of the researchers). Also, those who tend to remember their dreams seem to have an easier time mastering LD than those who wake with no memory of them. But another recent study, this one at Goethe University in Germany, holds out hope for even the hardest cases: Sleep researchers there found that a mild electric current delivered to the frontal lobe for 30 seconds during REM sleep triggered lucidity 77 percent of the time. Can it be long before wearable LD brain shockers start appearing alongside Google Glass and Oculus Rift?
The more people experiment with lucid dreaming, the more distinct manifestations of it we will find, yet there is a certain universality, too-almost all lucid dreamers have the impulse to do the same thing. They fly. "Oh, man, being able to fly," Morley says, smiling broadly at the memory. "Flying is amazing. The feeling of floating above the earth, free from gravity-it's so liberating. I used to go to bed early on Saturday nights just so I could fly in my dreams. I got stuck doing that for two years. All I did was fly around and go to orgies."
You'd think it would be addictive, but sooner or later boredom sets in. "After you've flown for the thousandth time, you start looking for other, less superficial applications," says Tim Post, the 30-year-old founder of the LD website Snoozon.com, who taught himself to lucid-dream after being inspired by The Matrix. "You start trying to bridge your lucid-dream experience with your waking life. You start asking, 'How can I learn from this? How can I use it to be a better person, or get ahead at work, or rehearse for a sporting event?' Eventually, you look for practical applications."
You don't have to look far. Like that case of the VA patient who cured his pain with a single lucid dream (involving beautiful musical tones and strands of giant DNA made out of cookie dough-hey, whatever works). It can be useful for coping with nightmares, overcoming shyness, or dealing with bereavement, and it can be helpful for practicing for a big presentation, pumping up one's confidence, or solving creative problems (Paul McCartney famously puzzled out the troublesome melody of "Yesterday" in a lucid dream). In many ways, LD is the perfect self-help trend for our super-busy, technology-obsessed times. Not only is it just the right mix of ancient Eastern philosophy and cutting-edge brain science, but it also lets you get twice as much done in a day by turning your sleep hours into a night shift.
Exactly how lucid dreaming works in the brain is still something of a mystery. Research shows that lucid dreaming stimulates the mind in the same ways as waking life. If you sing during a lucid dream, for example, the right hemisphere lights up, just as it would if you were awake. If you do math, the left hemisphere becomes active. And the effects reverberate through your body even after you wake up. It can, for instance, improve motor skills. Sleep researchers at Heidelberg University proved that practicing a task in a lucid dream-tossing a coin into a cup-makes the dreamer significantly better at it during waking hours. They're currently experimenting with more complex tasks, like running and jumping, to see if eventually athletes might be able to train in their sleep.
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But the real power of lucid dreaming, according to those who've mastered it, is how it alters your perception of, well, pretty much everything.
"When I'm flying in a dream, what's moving?" asks Robert Waggoner, the author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self and a popular speaker on the lucid-dream lecture circuit. "What's the nature of space in a lucid dream? It's just a mental construct. Early lucid dreamers, the Buddhists who practiced dream yoga, they wouldn't even bother to fly to the mountain in their dreams. They'd just pull the mountain to them."
"It does tend to blur the lines between reality and dream life," agrees Sean Kelly, a 27-year-old longtime lucid dreamer from California who studied perception and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now splits his time between Thailand and India, studying yoga and consciousness. "Not to the point where you can't function. It's not like, 'Oh my God, I can't cook this egg because I don't know if it's real.' But when you start to experience a lucid dream-consciousness without being encased in a physical body-it starts to shift your idea of the world, of what reality really is. Reality in a dream and reality in the physical world-they're both constructs of your consciousness. You start to realize that we don't have any idea at all what reality really is."
If taking flight via lucid dreaming sounds like a different sort of trip, there's a reason.
 "I was climbing K2 and there were snowdrifts all around," says Dr. Stephen LaBerge, recalling the dream that would ultimately bring LD into the mainstream. "But I was dressed in shorts. And I thought, 'Wait a minute, I'm not properly prepared to go to the top of a mountain. Of course, it's a dream!' I was so reeled by it, I just flew off the mountain."
Meet the godfather of lucid dreaming, the researcher who brought LD from the fringes of alternative psychology to the razor-sharp edge of modern sleep and dream science. LaBerge, who bears a passing resemblance to Christopher Lloyd's Doc from the Back to the Future movies (though he drives a Subaru, not a DeLorean), is 67 now, living in Arizona and leading seminars. His dream about climbing K2 in shorts came when he was a graduate student in chemical physics at Stanford in the late sixties. Like so many others of his generation, he was drawn to psychedelics-only in his case, as a subject for study. He was researching their effects on consciousness. The substances, though, were illegal, making research difficult. LaBerge's eureka moment-his mountain-climbing dream-"set the seed," he says. "I couldn't study psychedelics, but here was a state-one that happens naturally in the REM cycle-that had similar potential."
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The breakthrough came in the early eighties, while LaBerge was conducting research at Stanford's prestigious Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. He had come up with an ingeniously simple study that proved once and for all the reality of lucid dreaming: Subjects with a history of lucid dreaming were given instructions to send specific signals-two pairs of left-to-right eye movements-once they slipped into the deepest level of REM sleep, where lucidity occurs. "That was something," LaBerge recalls proudly. "A communication from the dream world while it was happening."
He spent the following decades sharing his findings in books (Lucid Dreaming, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming), establishing the Lucidity Institute, and inventing devices like the NovaDreamer, a now-discontinued sleep mask designed to nudge dreamers into lucidity with light pulses powerful enough to penetrate the unconscious and alert dreamers that they're asleep, but not so disruptive as to wake them.
Whether you're delivered there by light or by luck, the moment you achieve awareness that you're in a dream is when it becomes lucid. LD practitioners train themselves to recognize dream signals-in my case, an office cubicle in the middle of a forest; in LaBerge's, inappropriate mountain-climbing attire-that tip them off to the fact that they're dreaming (think of them as unreality checks). Sean Kelly suggests giving yourself the finger: He pushes his middle finger into the flesh of his palm, and if it goes through, he knows he's dreaming.
During my first few unsuccessful weeks attempting lucidity, none of this worked. Nor did the Remee, a red-light-emitting LD mask made by a Brooklyn company, which just kept me from sleeping at all.
There is another, chemical option for those stuck on the lucidity launchpad, something that several lucid dreamers had quietly clued me in to: galantamine, a brain-boosting drug used as a treatment for Alzheimer's that's said to have powerful lucid-dream-triggering side effects. Like many other nootropics, a.k.a. smart drugs, galantamine requires a prescription in the U.S., but low-dosage capsules containing its active ingredient-derived from the flowers of the Galanthus causcasicus plant-can easily be obtained. You wake up to take it at three in the morning, then go back to sleep, perchance to lucid-dream.
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It didn't have an effect on me, at least not initially. But then, a couple of nights later, when I wasn't expecting it, I had my lucid dream. It may have been a delayed reaction to the galantamine. Or perhaps it was simply because I'd been concentrating on lucid dreaming so intensely (all the experts agree that a strong desire to lucid-dream is a key factor in achieving lucidity)-and on my looming deadline. But there I was, in a cubicle in the forest, typing these words into a laptop: This is exhilarating. Although next time, I want to try to dream bigger. I'm going to fly.

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