New Horizons

On April 11, 1964, a momentous event unfolded at Sofia Airport as Bulgaria's civil aviation embarked on its maiden transatlantic flight to Lima, Peru. The pioneering voyage, covering the Sofia-Lima route, marked a significant moment in Bulgarian aviation history.

Michel Demopoulos, the former Thessaloniki Film Festival Director credited with its wide revamp and success, died on Wednesday, aged 73. He had been suffering from an undisclosed illness recently, reports said.

Nintendo's profit for the nine months through December slipped 2.5 percent, as shortages of computer chips hurt production, the Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario and Pokemon franchises said yesterday.

You're stuck in lockdown but that doesn't mean you can't visit a tropical island, a space station or have games night with your friends - certain video games have filled the need of the world's confined for a bit of distraction, adventure and socializing and achieved unexpected success during the pandemic.

,,Membership in the EU does not mean that someone else has to make the decisions instead of us, that we have to wait for set parameters, directives and regulations already voted, and let us only have to translate them into Bulgarian language and put them in our legislation.''

The discovery of seven Earth-size planets around a nearby star, TRAPPIST-1, is certainly exciting news. But what would it take to visit one of these potentially Earth-like alien worlds?

When we are enveloped by darkness, art can be like an open horizon that has a healing effect on a personal and social level. At the same time, it allows us to see and assimilate the new. With this notion in mind, Vlassis Frissiras, founder of the museum of the same name, decided to call a trilogy of shows that starts this year and runs to 2018 "New Horizons in Painting."

The best photos from the New Horizons spacecraft that buzzed Pluto earlier this year were released by NASA providing resolutions of less than 100 yards per pixel.

NASA also published a video compiled from the sharpest views of Pluto seen so far from New Horizons.

The new images show details of craters and mountains, along with icy plains.

Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Oct. 8 from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July.

Never before has Pluto -- a resident of the distant Kuiper Belt, a frigid region of the solar system beyond Neptune that is home to many comets and asteroids -- been observed in such detail.    

Icy mountain ranges can be seen rising from Pluto's surface, according to the first close-up images released on July 15 from NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft after its historic of flyby of the dwarf planet.

The mountains' elevation reaches 11,000 feet (3,400 meters), the US space agency said, or about as high as the Rocky Mountains.    

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