Long-time Nvidia skeptic D.A. Davidson has finally come around to our way of thinking. The analysts on Thursday raised their price target to $210 per share from $195. They also upgraded the Club stock to a buy from a hold, which had been maintained since at least the beginning of 2024. To trace the arch of D.A. Davidson’s shift in tone, we want to start with what we saw developing Monday, just days after fellow portfolio name Broadcom ‘s blowout earnings report . It was a pair trade: Investors were selling Nvidia and buying Broadcom. The thinking? Broadcom was now positioned so strongly in custom artificial intelligence semiconductors that it would start pulling demand away from Nvidia as hyperscale players started to focus more on their own workloads and sought to increase efficiency by developing workload-specific chips. While highly customizable, powerful, and certainly still the industry gold standard, Nvidia makes chips and AI infrastructure hardware that are not specific to any one company. The custom chips from Broadcom may not be more efficient than Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) when it comes to handling a variety of workloads. However, big tech companies might seek out Broadcom to design a chip to manage a ton of demand for a single type of workload. For companies that also create software, it can make a lot of sense to invest in so-called application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or, as Broadcom calls them, XPUs. Jim Cramer, and others on the Street, have pushed back on the idea that the AI infrastructure build-out taking place is somehow a zero-sum game. We argue that demand is so strong and so broadly based that there will be multiple winners. Rather than attempt to play Nvidia and Broadcom against one another, investors would be better served by acknowledging that each is the best at what it does – Nvidia for GPUs and Broadcom for XPUs – and betting on both of the stocks. NVDA AVGO YTD mountain Nvidia and Broadcom YTD That’s the same line of thinking that seems to have finally convinced the analysts at D.A. Davidson to upgrade Nvidia. In a note titled, “The Most Important Thing is the Only Thing,” the analysts wrote, “Our increasingly optimistic view of the growth in AI compute demand supersedes our list of concerns regarding NVDA.” To be sure, the D.A. Davidson still has concerns regarding Nvidia, including the rate of hyperscale cloud spending and the return on that investment, competition from names like Broadcom, increased competition from China, and energy bottlenecks. However, they ultimately conceded, at least for the time being, that the “overwhelming growth in demand for compute is the only thing that matters.” They added, “Nvidia should be able to sustain growth over the next two years, regardless of which segment that growth comes from.” We cited similar reasons for our Nvidia price target hike to $200 from $170 on Wednesday afternoon, in the throes of the Oracle stock boom on sky-high AI infrastructure demand projections. While we are not yet ready to take our 2 rating back to a buy-equivalent 1, Jim has been much more constructive concerning Nvidia than D.A. Davidson and even many of the Street bulls. As of Thursday, 91% of the analysts who cover Nvidia have a buy-equivalent rating on the stock, according to FactSet data. There are five with a hold rating, equal to 8% of the coverage group. The lone sell rating belongs to Seaport Global Securities. The average Nvidia price target, per FactSet, was just over $216, representing more than 20% upside to Wednesday’s $177 close. While Nvidia still has some work to do to get back to its record-high close of $183 on Aug. 12, Broadcom closed at a new high of $369 on Wednesday. Broadcom, which was down Thursday, has been on a roll, jumping roughly 20% since closing at $306 per share on the company’s Sept. 4 earnings night. The recent rally ballooned Broadcom to our biggest position by weight. In recognition of the stock’s incredible run and its now 5.3% portfolio weighting, we told Club members Thursday that we would have trimmed Broadcom, if not restricted. We generally aim to limit positions from getting too big and throwing off the diversification of the portfolio. (Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust is long NVDA, AVGO. See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. NO SPECIFIC OUTCOME OR PROFIT IS GUARANTEED.
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5,700-year-old piece of gum reveals female DNA profile
A small lump of chewed birch pitch found on the island of Lolland held an unusually rich record of one person’s life. Scientists recovered human DNA, mouth microbes, and food traces from a single piece of resin that still showed tooth marks.
The find dates to about 5,700 years ago, right as farming was spreading into southern Scandinavia. It offers a rare human snapshot from a site without any buried skeletons.
Precise dating of DNA from gum
The work was led by Theis Z. T. Jensen at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen (GIUC).
In this study, the team reconstructed a complete ancient human genome from a chewed birch pitch that calibrates to between 5,858 and 5,661 years before present.
The researchers used radiocarbon dating to fix the age of the gum, then confirmed the material as birch pitch using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography mass spectrometry.
Those tests picked out chemical markers typical of pitch, including betulin and related compounds.
Chewing likely softened the resin for toolmaking, since fresh pitch hardens as it cools. Ethnographic records and chemistry also point to mild antiseptic properties, which could have made it a handy mouth cleaner in a pinch.
The Syltholm site preserved organic materials exceptionally well. Even so, the only direct human material from the site is this one chewed piece of pitch.
How they pulled DNA from gum
Sequencing produced roughly 390 million DNA reads, and about one third aligned to the human reference genome.
That volume of authentic ancient DNA made it possible to rebuild the woman’s genome to an average depth of 2.3x.
The researchers were able to build a complete version of her mitochondrial DNA and found that it belonged to a group called K1e, which was one of the maternal lineages present in prehistoric Europe.
“The results highlight the potential of chewed birch pitch as a source of ancient DNA,” wrote Jensen. This line captures why the gum matters for both archaeology and genetics.
Ancient DNA studies often rely on teeth or dense bone. This result shows that masticated pitch can sometimes match those tissues in how much human DNA it can hold.
What her DNA reveals
The sex determination analysis showed the chewer was female, based on how the reads mapped to the X and Y chromosomes.
Her genomic profile clusters with Western hunter gatherers rather than early farmers or eastern hunter gatherers.
“We also find that she likely had dark skin, dark brown hair and blue eyes,” wrote Jensen. Trait predictions using the HIrisPlex S system point to dark skin, dark brown hair, and blue eyes.
The genome lacks the key European variants for lactase persistence, so she was likely lactose intolerant as an adult. That fits a period before dairy tolerance rose to high frequencies in Europe.
Where she fits in prehistory
Genetic affinity tests show no detectable influx from eastern hunter gatherers or Anatolian farmers.
In southern Denmark around 3700 BC, at least some people still carried a largely hunter gatherer gene pool despite visible shifts in tools and pottery.
Later research documents strong natural selection on several pigmentation genes during the last few thousand years in Europe.
That helps explain why light skin spread later, while blue eyes appear in some earlier hunter gatherers.
These patterns suggest culture and genes do not always move in lockstep. Farming practices may arrive through contact and learning before ancestry profiles change.
The mouth microbes
Beyond human DNA on the gum, the pitch held a detailed oral microbiome profile. The mix of bacteria matched what is typical for the human mouth, including commensal species common today.
The team detected members of the red complex associated with periodontal disease, such as Porphyromonas gingivalis and Treponema denticola.
Those organisms are opportunists that can flourish under certain conditions and contribute to gum disease.
They also recovered sequences from Streptococcus pneumoniae and Epstein Barr virus. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of invasive disease in people today.
Finding ancient pathogen DNA does not prove active illness in this woman. It does show that many familiar microbes already shared our mouths thousands of years ago.
What she ate that day
Plant and animal DNA in the pitch point to hazelnut, Corylus avellana, and mallard, Anas platyrhynchos. These foods were common in coastal and woodland diets across Mesolithic and early Neolithic Scandinavia.
Those reads probably reflect a recent meal before the chewing session. The presence of birch DNA, unsurprisingly, comes from the pitch itself.
Ancient gum, DNA, and modern science
Chewed pitch opens doors at sites where human bones are missing or too fragile. It can capture ancestry, traits, oral ecology, and even dietary hints from a few mouthfuls of resin.
New work extends the approach to other places and periods. A 2024 paper from Sweden reports that Mesolithic chewers had signs consistent with poor oral health, and shows that ancient pitch can track diet and microbial imbalance.
These studies turn everyday actions into scientific evidence. A brief chew can preserve a trove of information about bodies, habits, and environments long after bones have vanished.
The study is published in Nature Communications.
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Global Enterprises Embrace Adobe and its AI Innovations to Power Growth
San Jose, Calif. — September 11, 2025 — Adobe today announced the acceleration of its AI innovation adoption, with leading enterprises embracing Adobe to transform the way they work. Today, 99% of Fortune 100 companies have used AI in an Adobe app, and nearly 90% of the Top 50 enterprise accounts have adopted one or more of Adobe’s AI-first innovations including GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Firefly Services and Acrobat AI Assistant.
“AI is no longer a future bet, it’s a competitive advantage today,” said Anil Chakravarthy, president, Digital Experience Business at Adobe. “The world’s leading brands are betting on Adobe to scale content, speed up decision-making and orchestrate standout customer experiences at every touchpoint.”
Enterprises are under pressure to create an unprecedented volume of compelling content, while also navigating how to market amid the rise of LLMs and the proliferation of new channels. Adobe is the only partner that can bring together world-class creativity and marketing tools into a unified AI platform. In an attention-based economy, where businesses have mere seconds to win customer loyalty, Adobe’s AI platform ensures that creativity can be executed in a personalized, on-brand, and compelling way at scale — making marketing more effective and customer experiences more impactful.
“Through our collaboration with Adobe, we’re empowering marketers to work smarter with purpose-built agents that reduce content costs, accelerate campaigns and drive growth,” said Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president, Business and Industry Copilot, Microsoft. These agentic solutions, built on Adobe’s unified AI platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot, reflect our shared belief in AI’s power to amplify creativity and deliver business impact.”
“By expanding our use of Adobe AI, we’ve unlocked new levels of productivity and efficiency,” said Jonathan Adashek, senior vice president, Marketing and Communications for IBM. “In a previous campaign, Adobe Firefly cut content costs by 80% and accelerated ideation from weeks to just two days. Adobe has been a key partner in helping us deliver immersive customer experiences at scale.”
“We put AI to work for people, and we see Adobe as a key partner in that mission,” said Colin Fleming, CMO of ServiceNow. “By bringing Adobe’s agentic AI into our creative and marketing teams, we’re launching data-driven campaigns that move faster, hit harder and feel more personal at scale. The result: customer experiences that are intuitive, human and drive real productivity across the business.”
Over 40% of Adobe’s top 50 enterprise accounts doubled their annualized recurring revenue spend since the start of fiscal year 2023.
Brands including The Coca-Cola Company, dentsu, The Estée Lauder Companies, Henkel, IBM, IPG Health, Lumen Technologies, Monks, The National Football League, Newell Brands, PepsiCo/Gatorade, Prudential Financial, Publicis Groupe, Qualcomm, Stagwell and Tapestry have been working with Adobe AI-powered offerings such as Firefly and GenStudio to shorten the time it takes to launch campaigns and engage new audiences — activating generative AI and agents to streamline workflows and boost creative output.
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Astronomers Just Saw a Gamma-Ray Explosion Defy All Known Space Logic : ScienceAlert
A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn’t just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe’s most powerful outbursts.
The gamma-ray burst (GRB) recorded on 2 July 2025 is the longest of its kind ever observed, lasting about a day. By comparison, GRBs normally last on the scale of milliseconds to minutes at most.
Moreover, it did something astronomers have never seen a GRB do before: it appears to have repeated. This can’t be neatly explained by our current models for what causes them.
Related: Brightest Space Explosion Ever May Hide an Elusive Dark Matter Particle
“This event is unlike any other seen in 50 years of GRB observations,” says astrophysicist Antonio Martin-Carrillo of University College Dublin.
“GRBs are catastrophic events so they are expected to go off just once because the source that produced them does not survive the dramatic explosion. This event baffled us not only because it showed repeated powerful activity but also because it seemed to be periodic, which has never been seen before.”
This reddish blob is a gamma-ray burst thought to be billions of light-years away, repeating over the course of a day. (ESO/A. Levan, A. Martin-Carrillo et al.) GRBs are the Universe’s most violent explosions, powerful eruptions that blaze with the most energetic form of radiation – gamma rays. Each burst releases more energy in a few seconds than the Sun will over the entire course of its lifespan.
There are thought to be two main mechanisms behind them: First, a core-collapse supernova of a massive star, wherein the stellar core collapses under gravity to form a black hole. This produces what we call long-duration bursts, lasting more than two seconds.
The second mechanism involves two neutron stars colliding and merging. This produces bursts shorter than two seconds.
The unusual nature of this new detection, designated GRB 250702B, was obvious immediately. It was discovered from alerts delivered by NASA’s space-based Fermi gamma-ray telescope – not just once, but three separate times over the course of several hours as the object seemed to pulsate in multiple repeated bursts of gamma rays.
The research team, co-led by Martin-Carrillo and astrophysicist Andrew Levan of Radboud University in the Netherlands, scurried to get to the bottom of this absolute space oddity.
A sequence of images taken using the VLT and Hubble showing the evolution of the GRB. (ESO/A. Levan, A. Martin-Carrillo et al./NASA/ESA) Checking other telescope data revealed that the Einstein Probe, a space-based X-ray observatory, showed the same source had been sending out X-rays almost a full day before the Fermi observations.
It was so bright that astronomers initially thought that the source was right here in the Milky Way. However, when they trained the Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope to the spot in the sky where it came from, they discovered otherwise.
It’s unclear exactly how far away it is, but the progenitor of the weird event is also weird: a galaxy with a very strange shape, appearing to be split into two distinct regions. This could be a clue about what produced the explosions, but at the moment it’s still one heck of a mystery.
frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” allowfullscreen>“If a massive star – about 40 times the mass of the Sun – had died, like in typical GRBs, then it had to be a special type of death where some material kept powering the central engine. Alternatively, the periodicity of the flashes of gamma-ray radiation could be caused by a star being ripped apart by a black hole, a phenomenon known as a tidal disruption event (TDE),” Martin-Carrillo explains.
“However, unlike more typical TDEs, to explain the properties of this explosion would require an unusual star being destroyed by an even more unusual black hole, likely the long-sought ‘intermediate mass black hole’. Either option would be a first, making this event extremely unique.”
To figure out what the heck GRB 250702B was, one of the first steps is to calculate the distance to the galaxy that produced it. Only then will astronomers be able to calculate its exact brightness – a measurement that will help narrow down how much energy it released, and how it may have been produced.
“We are still not sure what produced this or if we can ever really find out,” Martin-Carrillo says, “but with this research, we have made a huge step forward towards understanding this extremely unusual and exciting object.”
The discovery has been detailed in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Season 4 Coming to Apple TV+
The centuries-spanning story of Foundation will continue for another year.
Apple TV+ has ordered a fourth season of Foundation, its sci-fi series based on stories by Isaac Asimov. The renewal comes just ahead of the show’s third season finale, which streams Friday.
“There is no series quite like Foundation, and we feel lucky and honored to be carrying the torch forward as co-showrunners into season four,” co-showrunners and executive producers Ian Goldberg and David Kob said in a statement. “We look forward to continuing the epic, emotional, storytelling that defined the first three seasons of the show, and to be working alongside some of the most talented, passionate creative partners in the business.”
Added Matt Cherniss, head of programming at Apple TV+, “It’s been fantastic to watch Foundation become such a global phenomenon, with fans tuning in from every corner of the world. With each new season, the excitement around this trailblazing sci-fi epic just keeps building due to the bold storytelling and collective artistry of this extraordinarily talented cast and creative team. We’re excited to keep exploring this universe together in season four.”
Jared Harris, Lee Pace and Lou Llobell star in Foundation along with Laura Birn, Cassian Bilton, Terrence Mann and Rowena Kingwith. New additions to season three include Cherry Jones, Brandon P. Bell, Synnøve Karlsen, Cody Fern, Tómas Lemarquis, Alexander Siddig, Troy Kotsur and Pilou Asbæk.
Paramount Television Studios produces Foundation. Goldberg and Kob will executive produce season four with Bill Bost, Pace, Michael Satrazemis, Robyn Asimov and David S. Goyer.
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Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil | Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup and seeking to “annihilate” the South American country’s democracy.
Justices Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha and Cristiano Zanin ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning four of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty.
Announcing Bolsonaro’s sentence for crimes including coup d’etat and violently attempting to abolish Brazil’s democracy on Thursday night, the supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes said: “[He tried to] annihilate the essential pillars of the democratic rule-of-law state … the greatest consequence [of which] … would have been the return of dictatorship to Brazil.”
Delivering her decisive vote, Rocha denounced what she called an attempt to “sow the malignant seed of anti-democracy” in Brazil – but celebrated how the country’s institutions had survived and were fighting back.
“Brazilian democracy was not shaken,” Rocha told a court in the capital, Brasília, warning of the spread of “the virus of authoritarianism”.
On Tuesday two other judges, Moraes and Flávio Dino, also declared the 70-year-old politician guilty of leading what the former called “a criminal organisation” that had sought to plunge the South American country back into dictatorship.
“Jair Bolsonaro was leader of this criminal structure,” Moraes said during a five-hour address in which he offered a comprehensive account of the slow-burn conspiracy against Brazilian democracy.
“The victim is the Brazilian state,” said Moraes, claiming the plot had unfolded between July 2021 and January 2023, when Bolsonaro supporters rampaged through Brasília after the election’s leftwing winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, took power.
A fifth judge, Luiz Fux, voted to absolve Bolsonaro on Wednesday, claiming there was “absolutely no proof” the former president had been aware or part of an alleged plot to assassinate Lula and Moraes in late 2022, or had tried to stage a coup.
Fux called the 8 January 2023 uprising – when hardcore Bolsonaristas ransacked the supreme court, presidential palace and congress – a “barbaric act” that had caused “damage of an Amazonian-scale”. But the judge, who also controversially argued that the court lacked jurisdiction over the case, claimed there was no proof Bolsonaro was to blame for inciting the riots.
Brazil’s federal supreme court minister Carmen Lucia. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP Fux did, however, vote to convict two of Bolsonaro’s closest allies – his former defence minister, Gen Walter Braga Netto, and his former aide-de-camp, Lt Col Mauro Cid – for the crime of violently attempting to abolish Brazilian democracy. The judge concluded that the pair had helped plan and bankroll a plot to murder Moraes in order to generate social mayhem they hoped would trigger a military intervention.
There were leftwing celebrations outside the supreme court as Rocha sealed the fate of Bolsonaro and seven other close allies who were also convicted. They include the former defence ministers, Netto and Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira, the former minister for institutional security, Gen Augusto Heleno, and the former navy commander, Adm Almir Garnier Santos.
Bolsonaro’s former spy chief, Alexandre Ramagem, and justice minister, Anderson Torres, were also found guilty, as was Cid.
“Today, Brazil is making history,” Lindbergh Farias, the leader of Lula’s Workers’ party in the lower house of congress, said as he emerged from the building. “Brazil is saying: ‘Coups are a crime!’”
Fabiano Leitão, a trumpeter who has spent years using his instrument to criticise Bolsonaro, turned up to mark the day of history with a rendition of Chopin’s Funeral March that symbolised the former president’s downfall. “It’s the end! It’s the end of this guy!” Leitão said as he pulled out his trumpet.
After playing the sombre composition, the leftwing musician launched into a lively samba, capturing the joy many Brazilians feel at the demise of a politician they blame for attacking their country’s democracy, environment and minorities. “The extreme right is a mechanism of destruction of countries. It destroys everything: healthcare, science, technology, education, culture. It destroys it all. So this is a historic moment for this county,” Leitão said. “Justice is done, comrades!”
Bolsonaro’s senator son, Flávio Bolsonaro, called the verdict political persecution and Donald Trump said the conviction was “very surprising”.
“That’s very much like they tried to do with me. But they didn’t get away with it at all,” said the US president who has spent recent months trying to pressure Brazil’s supreme court and government into halting Bolsonaro’s trial with a campaign of tariffs and sanctions.
“The United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt,” tweeted the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, calling the conviction “unjust”.
Supporters of Bolsonaro demonstrated in São Paulo on Brazilian Independence Day (7 September). Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters Eduardo Bolsonaro, another son of the former president, told Reuters he expected the US to apply further sanctions against officials following his father’s conviction.
In a post on social media, Brazil’s foreign ministry rejected the statement from US officials, saying “threats like those made today by the US secretary of state Marco Rubio … will not intimidate our democracy”.
The former president did not attend court this week, remaining in his nearby mansion, where he is under house arrest and police officers have been stationed to ensure he does not flee to one of Brasília’s foreign embassies.
Progressive elation at the downfall of a president blamed for rampant environmental destruction, hundreds of thousands of Covid deaths and attacks on minorities, has been tempered by the realisation that his political movement remains very much alive. Some fear Fux’s questioning of the judges’ authority over the case could open the door to legal challenges and even the trial’s annulment in the future.
“I wouldn’t declare Jair Bolsonaro’s political death,” said Dr Camila Rocha, a political scientist from the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning, who studies the Brazilian right.
Rocha expected supporters of the former president to keep fighting to rescue their leader from jail. Likely strategies include trying to elect a large number of rightwing senators in next year’s elections who could impeach members of the supreme court considered Bolsonaro’s foes; petitioning Donald Trump to heap more pressure on Brazil over Bolsonaro’s plight; and trying to ensure that a pro-Bolsonaro candidate beats Lula in the 2026 presidential election. Their hope was that a rightwing president might grant Bolsonaro a pardon, although the supreme court could torpedo those plans, she said.
“I think they’ll continue trying various ways of getting Bolsonaro out of jail and to uphold his leadership and keep him visible,” she predicted.
In recent weeks, pro-Bolsonaro lawmakers have been pushing the idea of an amnesty for their leader and others who were involved in the coup attempt and the 8 January 2023 riots in Brasília. They claim such forgiveness would help pacify a politically divided country.
But Fabio Victor, the author of a book about military involvement in Brazilian politics called Camouflaged Power, said he believed an amnesty would serve as an “incentive to illegality”. “It would send an awful signal – it would undoubtedly represent a setback to democracy,” he warned.
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Libertine Spring 2026 Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
In a time when the whole world seems angry, Johnson Hartig took the opposite tack, aiming to offer a positive alternative to all the negativity.
Although his message was still about a revolt, the designer of Libertine presented it in such a way that it felt upbeat.
“This season is a love revolution,” he said backstage before his Wednesday night show. “We’re talking about peace and harmony and brotherhood and truth. Truth is beauty, and beauty is truth.”
He embroidered these positive affirmations in sequins on some of his coats and jackets to drive home the message.
“Beauty is more essential now than ever, and creating beauty is a quiet act of resistance. It is how we remind ourselves — and each other — of what is good, what is true, and what is worth preserving. This is a really peaceful way of protesting,” he said.
Although the show opened with Hartig’s take on American Revolution-era soldiers in tricorn hats playing a flute and drums, the mood was immediately lifted by his trademark colorful, elaborately designed women’s and menswear.
This season included a robust hollyhock print inspired by 15th and 16th-century botanical drawings, and a variety of garden-inspired patterns. One standout was a floral jacquard print Hartig created and complemented with an array of feathers that he used for dresses, pantsuits and other pieces. He also offered up an assortment of rainbow stripes, ribbon embellishments and other eye-popping art pieces that drew the admiration of guests including Cyndi Lauper, Martha Stewart, Christina Hendricks, Theodora Richards and Thom Browne.
For the second time, the show was held at the Elizabeth Street Garden, itself a place of protest as it was threatened with demolition by the city to create affordable housing. However, a compromise was reached and the garden was saved, bringing another positive element to the evening. “We did our little bit to help and it feels like a victory,” Hartig said.
Ditto for this collection.
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Auroras, galaxies and the moon: 12 incredible cosmic photos that won 2025 top astrophotography awards
One of the winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards. (Image credit: Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow © Dan Bartlett) The winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award have been revealed, showcasing a spectacular selection of night sky images that reveal the majesty of ancient galaxies, nebulas, stellar cities and of course, Earth’s moon.
Astrophotographers from across the globe submitted over 5,800 entries in the various categories for the 17th annual competition hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in conjunction with astronomy camera manufacturer ZWO. The results of the contest, as judged by an international panel of experts, were announced in a livestreamed ceremony on Sept. 11.
The overall winner — a spectacular portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu — is set to be displayed in a special exhibit at the National Maritime Museum in the U.K. from Sept. 12, along with the victors of each category.
“Once again, ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year offers up some of the best astrophotography in the world,” said Dr. Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory who acted as one of the judges for the 2025 competition. “This year I believe we’re particularly strong on images which ask the observer to really think about what they’re looking at and investigate just how the astrophotographer has achieved those particular results, this proved true for the judges as well!”
Read on to see the winners from each category of the 17th annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award, including a spectacular example of orbital astrophotography courtesy of NASA astronaut Don Pettit.
Auroras — Crown of Light by Kavan Chay
Kavan Chay captured auroras brightening the sky during a geomagnetic storm above New Zealand. (Image credit: Crown of Light © Kavan Chay) Photographer Kavan Chay took this spectacular image of a red, green and yellow aurora dancing through the starry sky above Tumbledown Bay in New Zealand on May 10, 2024 during a category G5 geomagnetic storm. The foreground and aurora were captured over the course of separate nights using a Nikon Z 7 astro-modified camera.
Our moon — The Trace of Refraction by Marcella Giulia Pace
The reflected light of the moon captured in the sky over Sicily. (Image credit: The Trace of Refraction © Marcella Giulia Pace) Marcella Giulia Pace captured the light of the moon as it was scattered and refracted by Earth’s atmosphere above the Italian island of Sicily on Apr. 7, 2024. The hues seen in the image occur as a result of Rayleigh scattering, wherein our atmosphere deflects the shorter, bluer wavelengths of reflected light, while allowing longer wavelengths to travel through relatively unhindered.
Our sun — Active Region of the sun’s Chromosphere by James Sinclair
The sun’s chromosphere is seen swirling in an image captured in September 2024. (Image credit: Active Region of the Sun’s Chromosphere © James Sinclair) This breathtaking image from James Sinclair gives us a detailed view of a section of the sun’s atmosphere known as the chromosphere — a chaotic region where hydrogen and helium plasma is molded and reshaped by our star’s ever-shifting magnetic field. The image is the result of a 10-second exposure taken with a Lunt 130 mm telescope in conjunction with a Player One Astronomy camera.
People & Space — ISS Lunar Flyby by Tom Williams
The ISS caught in close proximity to the moon in Earth’s sky from Wiltshire, UK. (Image credit: ISS Lunar Flyby © Tom Williams) Tom Williams took this snapshot of the International Space Station as it passed close to the cratered surface of Earth’s moon on Oct. 27 last year using a Sky Watcher 400P GoTo Dobsonian telescope with an astronomy camera on a 1.5-millisecond exposure.
Planets, comets & asteroids — Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow by Dan Bartlett
Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks captured in the skies over June Lake, California on March 31, 2024. (Image credit: Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow © Dan Bartlett) This shot of the wandering comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was taken in early 2024 around the solar maximum by Dan Bartlett, who was able to capture spectacular structural detail in the trail of the wandering solar system body.
Skyscapes — The Ridge by Tom Rae
The Milky Way is captured streaming across the New Zealand sky in this striking panorama from Tom Rae. (Image credit: The Ridge © Tom Rae) Tom Rae took this gorgeous panorama of the Milky Way forming a galactic arch in the star-studded sky above glacial rivers in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand on April 8, 2024. The image is comprised of a staggering 62 images totaling over a billion pixels.
Stars & Nebulas — M13: An Ultra-Deep Exposure of the Popular Cluster by Distant Luminosity
The Great Hercules Star Cluster. (Image credit: M13: An Ultra-Deep Exposure of the Popular Cluster © Distant Luminosity Julian Zoller, Jan Beckmann, Lukas Eisert, Wolfgang Hummel) Julian Zoller, Jan Beckmann, Lukas Eisert and Wolfgang Hummel took aim at the Great Hercules Cluster of stars located some 22,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. Over 29 hours of exposure time was needed to capture the teeming city of stars using a ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera mounted on a 200 mm Newtonian telescope.
The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer — Encounter Across Light Years by Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan
A Perseid meteor is seen streaking through the skies above Zhucheng City, China. (Image credit: Encounter Across Light Years © Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan) This surprise shot of a bright Perseid meteor captured streaking through the patch of sky containing the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was captured by Yurui Gong and Xizhen Ruan using a Nikon Z 30 camera on Aug. 12, 2024, as the shower hit its peak.
ZWO Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year — Orion, the Horsehead and the Flame in H-alpha by Daniele Borsari
The Horsehead and Orion nebulas captured using a H-alpha filter. (Image credit: Orion, the Horsehead and the Flame in H-alpha © Daniele Borsari) Daniele Borsari created this monochrome view of the famous Horsehead and Orion nebulas from over 22 hours of observations made from Italy over the course of several nights in January and February earlier this year.
Annie Maunder Open Category — Fourth Dimension by Leonardo Di Maggio
A visually intriguing effect created by combining gravitational lensing data with the geometric pattern found in a meteorite. (Image credit: Fourth Dimension © Leonardo Di Maggio) For this image, Leonardo Di Maggio combined an image she took of a geometric pattern contained in a meteorite with gravitational lensing deep space observation data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to create the impression of a fourth dimension or alien city with a monochrome aesthetic.
Overall winner: Galaxies — The Andromeda Core by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu
This image of the Andromeda galaxy was captured over the course of 39 hours over multiple nights in 2024. (Image credit: The Andromeda Core © Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu) This magnificent image portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu is the overall winner of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award and features a shockingly detailed view of the Milky Way’s closest neighbor.
“Not to show it all − this is one of the greatest virtues of this photo,” explained László Francsics, an astrophotographer who helped judge this year’s competition. “The Andromeda Galaxy has been photographed in so many different ways and so many times with telescopes that it is hard to imagine a new photo would ever add to what we’ve already seen. But this does just that, an unusual dynamic composition with unprecedented detail that doesn’t obscure the overall scene.”
The image reveals the complex structure present in the heart of the spiral galaxy, which was captured over the course of 38 hours from the AstroCamp Observatory in Spain using an impressive 20-inch aperture telescope fitted with a range of filters.
“We are excited to be awarded and never expected to be the Overall Winner,” said Liang, Yang and Yu in a press release announcing the winners. “Thanks to ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year, we have the opportunity to bring our work and the splendor of the universe to everybody.”
Special Feature — Earth From Orbit by Don Pettit
An image of Earth and the stars beyond as captured by astronaut Don Pettit during Expedition 72. (Image credit: Earth From Orbit © Don Pettit) This image of Earth taken from the International Space Station was captured by astronaut and renown orbital photographer Don Pettit in March 2025, as he served as part of the Expedition 72 crew. Pettit was able to capture the stars as fixed points by using a homemade sidereal star tracker that accounted for the motion of the ISS, while allowing Earth to blur as it spun on its axis down below.
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Litton Das guides Bangladesh away from Hong Kong shock in Asia Cup T20 | Cricket News
Bangladesh avoid upset in Asia Cup opener after captain Litton Das hits a half-century in seven wicket T20 win.
Published On 11 Sep 2025
Skipper Litton Das top-scored with 59 as Bangladesh beat a spirited Hong Kong by seven wickets in their first match of the Asia Cup.
Hong Kong posted 143-7 after Nizakat Khan made 42 in Thursday’s T20 meeting in Abu Dhabi, where the minnows were invited to bat first.
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Bangladesh lost two early wickets in their chase to raise Hong Kong’s hopes of an upset, but Litton put on a stand of 95 with Towhid Hridoy, who made an unbeaten 35, to reach 144-3 in 17.4 overs.
Litton reached his fifty in 33 balls, but fell to medium-pace bowler Ateeq Iqbal before Towhid hit the winning run.
It was Hong Kong’s second straight defeat in Group B, which includes Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan beat Hong Kong by 94 runs in the tournament opener.
Hong Kong lost two early wickets before Nizakat paired up with Zeeshan Ali, who made 30, in a third-wicket stand of 41.
Litton Das of Bangladesh bats during the Asia Cup match at Zayed Cricket Stadium [Francois Nel/Getty Images] Nizakat then got into another partnership of 46 with skipper Yasim Murtaza, who hit 28 off 19 balls, as the two counterattacked.
Murtuza was run out and leg-spinner Rishad Hossain struck twice in the next over, including taking Nizakat’s key wicket, as the Hong Kong batting lineup stuttered towards the end.
Pace bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib stood out with figures of 2-21 from his four overs. Taskin Ahmed and Rishad also took two wickets each.
In reply, Bangladesh slipped to 47-2 before Litton and Towhid rebuilt the innings and then bossed the opposition bowling.
Pakistan will open their campaign on Friday against Oman in Dubai.
Along with regional bragging rights, the Twenty20 competition will serve as a build-up towards the T20 World Cup in February-March in India and Sri Lanka.
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Auroras, galaxies and the moon: 12 incredible cosmic photos that won this year’s top astrophotography awards
One of the winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards. (Image credit: Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow © Dan Bartlett) The winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award have been revealed, showcasing a spectacular selection of night sky images that reveal the majesty of ancient galaxies, nebulas, stellar cities and of course, Earth’s moon.
Astrophotographers from across the globe submitted over 5,800 entries in the various categories for the 17th annual competition hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in conjunction with astronomy camera manufacturer ZWO. The results of the contest, as judged by an international panel of experts, were announced in a livestreamed ceremony on Sept. 11.
The overall winner — a spectacular portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu — is set to be displayed in a special exhibit at the National Maritime Museum in the U.K. from Sept. 12, along with the victors of each category.
“Once again, ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year offers up some of the best astrophotography in the world,” said Dr. Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory who acted as one of the judges for the 2025 competition. “This year I believe we’re particularly strong on images which ask the observer to really think about what they’re looking at and investigate just how the astrophotographer has achieved those particular results, this proved true for the judges as well!”
Read on to see the winners from each category of the 17th annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award, including a spectacular example of orbital astrophotography courtesy of NASA astronaut Don Pettit.
Auroras — Crown of Light by Kavan Chay
Kavan Chay captured auroras brightening the sky during a geomagnetic storm above New Zealand. (Image credit: Crown of Light © Kavan Chay) Photographer Kavan Chay took this spectacular image of a red, green and yellow aurora dancing through the starry sky above Tumbledown Bay in New Zealand on May 10, 2024 during a category G5 geomagnetic storm. The foreground and aurora were captured over the course of separate nights using a Nikon Z 7 astro-modified camera.
Our moon — The Trace of Refraction by Marcella Giulia Pace
The reflected light of the moon captured in the sky over Sicily. (Image credit: The Trace of Refraction © Marcella Giulia Pace) Marcella Giulia Pace captured the light of the moon as it was scattered and refracted by Earth’s atmosphere above the Italian island of Sicily on Apr. 7, 2024. The hues seen in the image occur as a result of Rayleigh scattering, wherein our atmosphere deflects the shorter, bluer wavelengths of reflected light, while allowing longer wavelengths to travel through relatively unhindered.
Our sun — Active Region of the sun’s Chromosphere by James Sinclair
The sun’s chromosphere is seen swirling in an image captured in September 2024. (Image credit: Active Region of the Sun’s Chromosphere © James Sinclair) This breathtaking image from James Sinclair gives us a detailed view of a section of the sun’s atmosphere known as the chromosphere — a chaotic region where hydrogen and helium plasma is molded and reshaped by our star’s ever-shifting magnetic field. The image is the result of a 10-second exposure taken with a Lunt 130 mm telescope in conjunction with a Player One Astronomy camera.
People & Space — ISS Lunar Flyby by Tom Williams
The ISS caught in close proximity to the moon in Earth’s sky from Wiltshire, UK. (Image credit: ISS Lunar Flyby © Tom Williams) Tom Williams took this snapshot of the International Space Station as it passed close to the cratered surface of Earth’s moon on Oct. 27 last year using a Sky Watcher 400P GoTo Dobsonian telescope with an astronomy camera on a 1.5-millisecond exposure.
Planets, comets & asteroids — Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow by Dan Bartlett
Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks captured in the skies over June Lake, California on March 31, 2024. (Image credit: Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow © Dan Bartlett) This shot of the wandering comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was taken in early 2024 around the solar maximum by Dan Bartlett, who was able to capture spectacular structural detail in the trail of the wandering solar system body.
Skyscapes — The Ridge by Tom Rae
The Milky Way is captured streaming across the New Zealand sky in this striking panorama from Tom Rae. (Image credit: The Ridge © Tom Rae) Tom Rae took this gorgeous panorama of the Milky Way forming a galactic arch in the star-studded sky above glacial rivers in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand on April 8, 2024. The image is comprised of a staggering 62 images totaling over a billion pixels.
Stars & Nebulas — M13: An Ultra-Deep Exposure of the Popular Cluster by Distant Luminosity
The Great Hercules Star Cluster. (Image credit: M13: An Ultra-Deep Exposure of the Popular Cluster © Distant Luminosity Julian Zoller, Jan Beckmann, Lukas Eisert, Wolfgang Hummel) Julian Zoller, Jan Beckmann, Lukas Eisert and Wolfgang Hummel took aim at the Great Hercules Cluster of stars located some 22,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. Over 29 hours of exposure time was needed to capture the teeming city of stars using a ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera mounted on a 200 mm Newtonian telescope.
The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer — Encounter Across Light Years by Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan
A Perseid meteor is seen streaking through the skies above Zhucheng City, China. (Image credit: Encounter Across Light Years © Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan) This surprise shot of a bright Perseid meteor captured streaking through the patch of sky containing the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was captured by Yurui Gong and Xizhen Ruan using a Nikon Z 30 camera on Aug. 12, 2024, as the shower hit its peak.
ZWO Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year — Orion, the Horsehead and the Flame in H-alpha by Daniele Borsari
The Horsehead and Orion nebulas captured using a H-alpha filter. (Image credit: Orion, the Horsehead and the Flame in H-alpha © Daniele Borsari) Daniele Borsari created this monochrome view of the famous Horsehead and Orion nebulas from over 22 hours of observations made from Italy over the course of several nights in January and February earlier this year.
Annie Maunder Open Category — Fourth Dimension by Leonardo Di Maggio
A visually intriguing effect created by combining gravitational lensing data with the geometric pattern found in a meteorite. (Image credit: Fourth Dimension © Leonardo Di Maggio) For this image, Leonardo Di Maggio combined an image she took of a geometric pattern contained in a meteorite with gravitational lensing deep space observation data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to create the impression of a fourth dimension or alien city with a monochrome aesthetic.
Overall winner: Galaxies — The Andromeda Core by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu
This image of the Andromeda galaxy was captured over the course of 39 hours over multiple nights in 2024. (Image credit: The Andromeda Core © Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu) This magnificent image portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu is the overall winner of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award and features a shockingly detailed view of the Milky Way’s closest neighbor.
“Not to show it all − this is one of the greatest virtues of this photo,” explained László Francsics, an astrophotographer who helped judge this year’s competition. “The Andromeda Galaxy has been photographed in so many different ways and so many times with telescopes that it is hard to imagine a new photo would ever add to what we’ve already seen. But this does just that, an unusual dynamic composition with unprecedented detail that doesn’t obscure the overall scene.”
The image reveals the complex structure present in the heart of the spiral galaxy, which was captured over the course of 38 hours from the AstroCamp Observatory in Spain using an impressive 20-inch aperture telescope fitted with a range of filters.
“We are excited to be awarded and never expected to be the Overall Winner,” said Liang, Yang and Yu in a press release announcing the winners. “Thanks to ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year, we have the opportunity to bring our work and the splendor of the universe to everybody.”
Special Feature — Earth From Orbit by Don Pettit
An image of Earth and the stars beyond as captured by astronaut Don Pettit during Expedition 72. (Image credit: Earth From Orbit © Don Pettit) This image of Earth taken from the International Space Station was captured by astronaut and renown orbital photographer Don Pettit in March 2025, as he served as part of the Expedition 72 crew. Pettit was able to capture the stars as fixed points by using a homemade sidereal star tracker that accounted for the motion of the ISS, while allowing Earth to blur as it spun on its axis down below.
Editor’s Note: If you would like to share your astrophotography with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com.
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