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   From- Space.Com    By  Elizabeth Howell     Edited by - Amal Udawatta Images from the night of 2025 SC79's discovery showing its motion relative to background stars.   (Image credit: Scott S. Sheppard) A newly found space rock almost broke a speed record. The  asteroid , called 2025 SC79, has a pathway within the orbit of Venus that zips around the  sun  in only 128 days, making it the second-fastest unique asteroid orbit in the solar system, according to a  statement  from Carnegie Science. 2025 SC79 is also a pretty big asteroid: roughly 0.4 miles (700 meters) long, or roughly the length of a skyscraper. Carnegie astronomer Scott Sheppard, a  noted discoverer  of small moons around  Jupiter , Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, spotted the asteroid on Sept. 27 hiding in the sun's glare. While 2025 SC79 will make no close approaches to Earth  for the foreseeable future , finding hidden asteroids is essenti...

    From - BBC World News By - Nicholas Barber Edit by - Amal Udawatta (Image credit: The Kinkade Family Foundation) Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade's quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured story that contrasts with his 'sugary' artworks. Thomas Kinkade was one of the best-selling artists in history, as well as one of the most divisive. When he died in 2012, the American painter had been rocked by business problems, but at his commercial peak a decade earlier, his company was bringing in more than  $100m a year . And yet his work was despised by many critics – not because it was blasphemous or obscene, but because, well, he specialised in quaint pictures of thatched-roof rural cottages nestling in leafy groves. "Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC....