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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sep 28, 2023
The Deep Lagoon
Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, The bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. It makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this deep telescopic view of the Lagoon's central reaches is about 40 light-years across. The bright hourglass shape near the center of the frame is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html?
Thick plumes of smoke fill air after fiery school bus crash in New York
Thu, 28 September 2023 at 4:30 am
Footage shows smoke rising from a school bus after a driver was killed in a fiery crash in New York on Wednesday afternoon (27 September).
Police said the bus was carrying 22 high school students and three adults eastbound on Lake Road in Webster at around 1:15pm, when a Toyota pulled out into its path.
The driver of the car died in the crash, while one child and one adult were taken to hospital.
According to local reports, the bus belongs to the Wayne Central School District.
“No life-threatening injuries were sustained by students or school personnel,” a statement from the district read.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thick-plumes-smoke-fill-air-113009361.html
Billionaire Chewy cofounder Ryan Cohen takes over as GameStop CEO
Sep 28, 2023, 6:44 AM PDT
GameStop has a CEO once again after Ryan Cohen, the billionaire founder of Chewy, was appointed Thursday.
Cohen had been executive chairman since early June after CEO Matt Furlong was shown the door. The company reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss along with the dismissal of Furlong, a former Amazon executive.
Cohen won't be paid a salary for the CEO role, or for his role as chairman and president, the company said in a statement.
Cohen, who's the largest investor in GameStop with a 12.1% stake, sold Chewy in 2017 for $3.3 billion. He's worth about $3.2 billion, Forbes reported.
GameStop shares jumped more than 7% in premarket trading Thursday. However, GameStop is now worth about $5 billion — some $3 billion less than when Furlong was axed.
Cohen first took a stake in GameStop in 2020 and joined its board in January 2021 before becoming chairman that June. His initial appointment helped spark a 50% surge in GameStop shares in a matter of days as it became one of the "meme" stocks that triggered a frenzy among retail investors.
However, the company was also being touted months earlier on the subreddit r/WallStreetBets by Keith Gill, who was also known as u/DeepFuckingValue, or DFV, and on YouTube as Roaring Kitty.
The saga has had renewed attention following the release of the film "Dumb Money" earlier this month.
GameStop stock peaked in late January 2021 at $483, costing some hedge funds billions and generating huge gains for retail traders. Gill was seen by many as a David standing up to a Goliath, Insider previously reported.
Earlier this month, GameStop reported a slight rise in net sales for the second quarter ending July 29 to $1.164 billion, compared with the same period last year. The net loss was slashed from $108.7 million to $2.8 million for the period.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gamestop-billionaire-chewy-founder-ryan-cohen-ceo-2023-9