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    ESA Releases Video Of The Sun Up Close

    This otherworldly, ever-changing landscape is what the Sun looks like up close. ESA’s Solar Orbiter filmed the transition from the Sun's lower atmosphere to the much hotter outer corona. The hair-like structures are made of charged gas (plasma), following magnetic field lines emerging from the Sun's interior. The brightest regions are around one million degrees Celsius, while cooler material looks dark as it absorbs radiation. This video was recorded on 27 September 2023 by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on Solar Orbiter. At the time, the spacecraft was at roughly a third of the Earth’s distance from the Sun, heading for the closest approach of 43 million km on 7 October. In the lower-left corner is the bright gas that makes delicate, lace-like patterns across the Sun. This is called coronal ‘moss’. On the solar horizon are spires of gas, known as spicules, which reach up from the Sun’s chromosphere. These can reach up to a height of 10 000 km. Plus, in the middle of the video there’s a small eruption in the centre of the field of view, with cooler material being lifted upwards before mostly falling back down. Don’t be fooled by the use of ‘small’ here: this eruption is bigger than Earth!

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    Ariana Grande gives surprise performance at 2024 Met Gala

    The Thank U, Next singer performed a set of her greatest hits in front of the star-studded crowd inside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wearing a sheer green ensemble from Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano, the pop star hit the stage with 30 dancers and members of the 40-person choir Broadway Inspirational Voices. According to Vogue, Ariana opened her set with Once Upon a Dream from Disney's 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty before launching into hits Into You and 7 Rings.

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    Instacart partners with Uber to offer food delivery services to customers in US

    Instacart customers will now be able to use the grocery delivery platform's app to order from hundreds of thousands of Uber Eats restaurant partners across the U.S., as part of a partnership between the two companies, they said on Tuesday. Instacart, formally known as Maplebear, has been investing to improve its platform services and increasing its marketing spend to attract more customers amid stiff competition from DoorDash, Amazon.com and Walmart. Shares of Instacart were up 4% before the bell, while Uber Technologies was up marginally after the announcement.