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Rare look inside the secret LEGO Museum reveals the system behind a toy giant's remarkable longevity

December 20, 2025 / 11:16 AM EST / CBS News

Blue Origin launches wheelchair-user and 5 others on sub-orbital trip to space

Updated on: December 20, 2025 / 9:21 PM EST / CBS News

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Day 20 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Cosmic Cliffs

Day 20 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Cosmic Cliffs. The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a region at the edge of a gigantic gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324. The cluster, about 9,100 light-years away, near the Carina Nebula, is believed to be fairly young, only about 12 million years old.

The Future of Film Is Behind Us

There’s a scene near the start of Avatar: Fire and Ash that sums up the premise of the franchise, and its approach to making movies: Jake Sully, a colonialist Marine reborn as a blue-skinned freedom fighter, is trying to persuade his wife (also an alien) to accept the human weapons he’s found at the bottom of the ocean. As a proud Pandoran, she won’t touch the cursed technologies of the “sky people.” So instead he starts to strap grenades onto her wooden arrows, Rambo-style. This can be their compromise, he says: the traditions that she loves, but optimized for kicking ass.