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As Beetlejuice returns this year for its sequel with most of its original cast reprising their previous roles‚ Geena Davis dampened fans’ hearts as she announced her absence from the upcoming film. “No‚ I’m not. I’m not in the remake‚” the 68-year-old told Entertainment Tonight last Thursday. “Oh‚ you were expecting that I would be&;#63; Yeah‚ no.” Geena played the ghost Barbara Maitland‚ who Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz sees in the 1988 fantasy horror movie. However‚ she will not be back for part two “because my theory is that ghosts don’t age…not that I have‚” she humorously quipped. Why is Geena Davis not in the ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel&;#63; BEETLEJUICE‚ Geena Davis‚ Alec Baldwin‚ 1988. (c) Warner Bros./ Courtesy: Everett Collection. While speaking with the outlet‚ Geena said their “characters were stuck the way they looked when they died forever‚ so it’s been a while‚ it’s been a minute‚” after which she admitted to not seeing the trailer yet. “I heard the trailer came out and somebody said they were crying‚ so I have to see the trailer‚” she added. RELATED: Geena Davis And Jeff Goldblum Reunite At SAG Awards 2024 Director Tim Burton‚ who was also behind the original said he “really enjoyed” working with the cast and crew— both old and new. Among the reappearing faces is Michael Keaton‚ who is back as Beetlejuice‚ and shares similar excitement with Burton. “‘Beetlejuice’ is the most f–king fun you can have working. It’s so fun‚ it’s so great. And you know what it is&;#63; We’re doing it exactly like we did the first movie‚” the 72-year-old gushed. BEETLEJUICE‚ Geena Davis (left)‚ 1988. © Warner Brothers /courtesy Everett Collection Joining Michael Keaton is Catherine O’Hara‚ Winona Ryder‚ Justin Theroux‚ Monica Bellucci‚ Willem Dafoe‚ and Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega who stars as Lydia’s daughter‚ Astrid Deetz. Catherine shared her thoughts about working with new co-stars at CinemaCon‚ saying it was “delightful to actually get the call from Tim.” “The characters have evolved— not ‘Beetlejuice‚’ but the rest of us‚” she noted. BEETLEJUICE‚ from left: Alec Baldwin‚ Michael Keaton‚ Geena Davis‚ 1988. © Warner Brothers /courtesy Everett Collection Burton shared the same sentiment as Catherine‚ saying he “tried to strip everything and go back to the basics of working with good people and actors and puppets” while creating the much-anticipated sequel. “It was kind of like going back to why I liked making movies‚” the multiple award-winning director gushed. Click for next Article The post Geena Davis On The Real Reason She’s Not In The ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel appeared first on DoYouRemember&;#63; - The Home of Nostalgia. Author‚ Peace A

Look through the names and origins of the constellations and you will soon realise that many cultures had a hand in their conceptualisation. Among them are the Egyptians who were fantastic astronomers. The movement of the sky played a vital role in ancient Egypt including the development of the 365 day year and the 24 hour day. Like many other cultures they say the Sun‚ Moon and planets as gods. Surprisingly though‚ the bright Milky Way seems not to have played a vital role. Some new research suggests that this may not be the case and it may have been a manifestation of the sky goddess Nut&;#33;  It’s a fairly well accepted theory that the pyramids of Egypt were constructed in some way as a representation of or tribute to the sky. The Sun god Ra was often depicted sailing the Sun across the sky in a boat but the Milky Way was never seemed to be a big part‚ other than perhaps some consideration that the river Nile could represent it.  Nile River‚ Lake Nasser and the Red Sea‚ Egypt Back in the days of ancient Egypt‚ light pollution really wasn’t a thing. The Milky Way would have been far more prominent than for many stargazers today. A recent study by astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth suggest that a lesser heard god by the name of Nut had something to do with it.  Hunt through Egyptian artwork and you will often see a star-filled woman arched over another person. The woman is Nut‚ the goddess of the sky and the other figure represents her brother‚ the god of Earth‚ Geb. Nut has a very specific job though‚ she protects the Earth from being flooded from waters of the void&;#33; Presumably this would be the void of space but of course back then we didn’t have such a great understanding of the cosmos. She also swallowed the Sun as it sets‚ giving birth to it again in the morning.  Thankfully the Egyptians were fabulous at recording things and so there have been plenty of Egyptian texts to refer to. Running simulations from the evidence in the documents‚ the team (led by Dr Or Graur Associate Professor in Astrophysics) suggest that the Milky Way represented Nut’s outstretched arms in the winter and her backbone in the summer. This suggestion aligns with the broad patterns in the Milky Way.  The arch of the Milky Way seen over Bisei Town in Japan. It prides itself on its dark skies‚ but faces scattered light pollution from other nearby municipalities. Courtesy DarkSky.Org. Dr Graur went on to explain that their results revealed that Nut had far more of a functional role too. She was involved in the transition of deceased souls to the afterlife and had a connection with annual bird migrations. This is in line with many cultures like those in North and Central America believing the Milky Way was a road used by spirits or those in Finland and the Baltics who believed it was a path for birds.  Source : The hidden role of the Milky Way in ancient Egyptian mythology The post The Milky Way’s Role in Ancient Egyptian Mythology appeared first on Universe Today.

The most recognizable feature on Pluto is its “heart‚” a relatively bright valentine-shaped area known as Tombaugh Regio. How that heart got started is one of the dwarf planet’s deepest mysteries — but now researchers say they’ve come up with the most likely scenario‚ involving a primordial collision with a planetary body that was a little more than 400 miles wide. The scientific term for what happened‚ according to a study published today in Nature Astronomy‚ is “splat.” Astronomers from the University of Bern in Switzerland and the University of Arizona looked for computer simulations that produced dynamical results similar to what’s seen in data from NASA’s New Horizons probe. They found a set of simulations that made for a close match‚ but also ran counter to previous suggestions that Pluto harbors a deep subsurface ocean. They said their scenario doesn’t depend on the existence of a deep ocean — which could lead scientists to rewrite the history of Pluto’s geological evolution. An artist’s conception shows the presumed collision of a planetary body with Pluto. (Thibaut Roger/University of Bern) University of Arizona astronomer Adeene Denton‚ one of the study’s co-authors‚ said the formation of the heart “provides a critical window into the earliest periods of Pluto’s history.” “By expanding our investigation to include more unusual formation scenarios‚ we’ve learned some totally new possibilities for Pluto’s evolution‚” Denton said in a news release. Similar scenarios could apply to other objects in the Kuiper Belt‚ the ring of icy worlds on the edge of our solar system. The study focuses on the left half of the heart‚ a 1‚250-mile-long‚ teardrop-shaped region called Sputnik Planitia. That region contains an assortment of ices and is roughly 2.5 miles lower in elevation than the rest of Pluto. It’s clearly the result of a massive impact. “While the vast majority of Pluto’s surface consists of methane ice and its derivatives‚ covering a water-ice crust‚ the Planitia is predominantly filled with nitrogen ice which most likely accumulated quickly after the impact due to the lower altitude‚” said study lead author Harry Ballantyne‚ a research associate at the University of Bern. The eastern half of the heart is covered by a similar but much thinner layer of nitrogen ice. The origins of that part of Tombaugh Regio are still unclear‚ but it’s probably related to the processes that shaped Sputnik Planitia. Ballantyne and his colleagues ran a wide assortment of computer simulations for the ancient impact. Those simulations reflected a range of sizes and compositions for the impacting body‚ at different velocities and angles of approach. The best fit for Sputnik Planitia’s shape involved a 400-mile-wide object‚ composed of 15% rock‚ coming in at an angle of 30 degrees and hitting Pluto at a relatively low velocity. Based on those parameters‚ the object would have plowed through Pluto’s surface with a splat. The resulting shape wouldn’t look like your typical impact crater. Instead‚ it would look like a bright‚ icy teardrop‚ with the rocky core of the impacting body ending up at the tail of the teardrop. “Pluto’s core is so cold that the rocks remained very hard and did not melt despite the heat of the impact‚ and thanks to the angle of impact and the low velocity‚ the core of the impactor did not sink into Pluto’s core‚ but remained intact as a splat on it‚” Ballantyne explained. Previous scenarios for Sputnik Planitia’s origin relied on the presence of a deep ocean beneath Pluto’s surface to explain why the impact region hasn’t drifted toward Pluto’s nearest pole over time. But the researchers behind the newly published study found that the best matches in their simulations called for an ocean measuring no more than 30 miles in depth. “If the influence of ammonia proves negligible‚ Pluto might not possess a subsurface ocean at all‚ in accordance with our nominal case‚” they wrote. The researchers say they’ll continue their work to model Pluto’s geological history — and how those models could apply to other Kuiper Belt objects as well. Meanwhile‚ the New Horizons spacecraft is continuing its journey through the solar system’s far reaches‚ nearly nine years after its Pluto flyby. Mission scientists recently reported detecting higher than expected levels of interplanetary dust‚ which suggests there may be more to the Kuiper Belt than they thought. They’re hoping to identify yet another icy world that the spacecraft can observe up close in the late 2020s or the 2030s. In addition to Ballantyne and Denton‚ the authors of the Nature Astronomy study‚ titled “Sputnik Planitia as an Impactor Remnant Indicative of an Ancient Rocky Mascon in an Oceanless Pluto‚” include Erik Asphaug‚ Alexandre Emsenhuber and Martin Jutzi. The post How Did Pluto Get Its Heart&;#63; Scientists Suggest an Answer appeared first on Universe Today.

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