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On the set of 'Lifeforce' (1985) with one of the bat vampire alien puppets. Design and effects by Nick Maley and team.

VFX History: Slit Scan youtu.be/qKOAOzVHvFQ?si… via @YouTube

To this day, many viewers still mistake the alien in Alien 3 as being an example of “early CGI” but the effects were in fact achieved through use of a rod puppet and advanced photochemical technology. Here VFX supervisor Richard Edlund speaks about puppeteering the alien.

Who would win in a fight between a Zeppelin and Pterodactyls?

本日発売のModelGraphix 2026.05へ、 HMA 1/144 リアベ・スペシャルを掲載して頂きました(^^)o TV版 銀河大戦ではなく映画版として製作しています この動画はXのサイズにカットしていますが、YouTubeへフル版を上げていますので、そちらも音声付きで是非ご覧ください(*'▽') youtu.be/jddXa200rSU

Behind the scenes on Battlestar Galactica (1978).

These kids didn’t just play ‘Holy Diver’. They played like the legend was watching from the side of the stage.

Full-size Viper prop. #BattlestarGalactica

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Star Wars logo still in use for letterhead in 1978. The font appears to be a modification of Precis Extended.

Tyketto - The Picture (Official Audio) youtu.be/0sy-knFfWyc?si… via @YouTube Absolute banger! #Tyketto

Behind the scenes on Battlestar Galactica (1978).

Behind-the-scenes filming on the Battlestar Galactica episode Gun On Ice Planet Zero.

The newly-constructed Landram for Battlestar Galactica, in the parking lot at Apogee in 1978.

Behind the scenes on Battlestar Galactica (1978).

@gnolan12 Logan's Run.

Name some movies that are better than the books they were based on. I'll start: JAWS.

I just want to take a minute to wish everybody a happy springtime! 🌸

We just saw the exact moment a star exploded for the first time ever. Astronomers have achieved a rare feat: imaging the exact moment a massive star detonated—and the explosion was anything but spherical. SN 2024ggi, a supernova located 22 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 3621, was detected a mere 26 hours after ignition. This extraordinarily early discovery allowed researchers to train the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile on the event while it was still in its infancy. Using the technique of spectropolarimetry—which analyzes the polarization of light to reveal geometric structure—the team uncovered a surprising truth: the expanding shockwave was distinctly aspherical, elongated into an “olive” or prolate shape along one primary axis. This asymmetry means the catastrophic rebound following the star’s core collapse did not propagate uniformly in all directions, directly contradicting the long-standing assumption that the deepest layers of a core-collapse supernova explode spherically. The progenitor was a red supergiant 12–15 times more massive than the Sun that had exhausted its nuclear fuel, triggering gravitational collapse of its iron core. In most supernovae, the initial shape of this breakout is quickly obscured as the blast wave slams into the star’s outer envelope. Here, however, astronomers captured polarized light signatures of the still-unobscured ejecta, freezing the explosion’s geometry in time. The discovery carries far-reaching consequences. It strongly suggests that asymmetry is common, if not universal, in the earliest phases of massive-star deaths. Current theoretical models, which often assume spherical symmetry at the core, will need significant revision. Moreover, these distorted explosions could help explain observed peculiarities in supernova remnants, the production of gamma-ray bursts, and the kicking of neutron stars and black holes to high speeds at birth. By catching a star in the act of dying asymmetrically, SN 2024ggi has given us a vivid glimpse into the violent, chaotic physics that govern the final heartbeat of the universe’s most massive stars. [🎞️ Artist’s animation of a supernova explosion] [Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection. ESO, 2025]

🚨: After 48 years of travel, NASA 's Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away. A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.