A team of astronomers has observed the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen circling a young star some 1,000 light years away. This churning expanse of gas and dust spans roughly 400 billion miles, 40 times the size of our solar system and extending to the Kuiper Belt. They’ve cataloged this disk as IRAS 23077+6707, also known as Dracula’s Chivito, and it’s easy to see why given its completely opaque center, which Hubble’s high resolution photo has peeled away to reveal a really odd image.
The first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday is here, and it hits you right in the feels. This brief clip begins with a peaceful rural road set against a somewhat familiar countryside setting. Steve Rogers rolls up on a Triumph motorcycle, and we hear a piano rendition of the original Avengers theme playing in the background.
ASUS, a laptop manufacturer, and GoPro, purveyors of action cameras, are collaborating to create something unique: a ProArt laptop with GoPro branding. That device, known as the ProArt GoPro Edition, is still under wraps, but ASUS will reveal it in full at their CES 2026 livestream on January 6th at 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
The AYANEO Pocket Vert may have debuted a bit too late in 2025, but it adds a new spin to the vertical form factor that retro gamers love. This device has a studry feel in the hands thanks to its metal body, which was CNC’d from a single block of aluminum. The edges are elegantly softened, and the diamond-cut shoulder buttons provide a touch of comfort while maintaining the clean lines. It comes in black, white, or red finishes, and measures 86mm wide, 143mm tall, and 20.5mm thick.
A 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) V-Spec, in the form of an extremely rare Tommykaira R-Z edition, is about to hit the auction block in Japan. This particular example has only 20,191 kilometers on the odometer, with a mere 2,000 of those added over the previous 15 years due to some extremely light use by its long-time owner.
The expression “lightning in a bottle” has long been linked with poets and visionaries. Yet, one creator has really gotten it off, using a particle accelerator and a clear two-inch acrylic cylinder to generate the image of lightning: branching electric patterns frozen in a tube, glowing with captured energy.
The DJI Osmo 360, priced at $356.29 (was $549.99) is currently the gold standard among 360-degree cameras. The device was released this summer, and its results outperform rivals such as the Insta360 X5 and GoPro Max 2 in a variety of critical areas. For starters, its dual square sensors provide true 1-inch 360-degree imaging, a first in the category.
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All these years after NVIDIA originally debuted the RTX 3080 Ti in 2021, a few prototype samples of unreleased variants have begun to appear in used listings online. These are essentially engineering samples, or pre-production hardware, that were created to test designs before deciding what to mass produce. One of them has piqued people’s interest because it features 20GB of GDDR6X RAM instead of the usual 12GB.
This new image of Arp 4 captured by NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope appears to have been created for a screen, doesn’t it? The way the galaxies align provides a flawless optical illusion that tricks the eye into sensing intimacy where none exists. It sits in the constellation Cetus, also known as the Whale, a peaceful region of sky far from the crowded Milky Way.
