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Warnings: This story contains all of the details of the big twist at the end of The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. Click away if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been building up to this moment for weeks: the reveal that Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), whom we presumed to be an Aragorn-like leader of men and the last rightful king of the Southlands , was actually JRR Tolkien’s big bad himself, Sauron. It’s a game-changing twist that forces viewers to reexamine every episode in the series to see the little hints and clues dropped throughout.

At least, that’s what the showrunners were hoping for.

In reality, when Halbrand confirms his identity to Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), it is likely many viewers — particularly the astute ones — passively accepted a foregone conclusion. Many people figured out the twist long before this week’s finale, and even if you didn’t quite connect the dots, there was enough chatter on the internet that anyone with a passing interest in the show likely ran into the popular fan theory. (For the full recap, read my colleague Erin Carson’s explanation of the Rings of Power season 1 ending.)

Had this twist played out in the era of network television, without the aid of the internet and a community of eagle-eyed viewers to share and spread their theories on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and more, the conclusion of Rings of Power would’ve been far more

The sun has delivered some wild looks recently. NASA showed off a goofy sun “smile” from October, and now the European Space Agency is pointing out a solar “snake” seen by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

A video shows the solar snake in action as a sinuous streak makes its way across the sun’s surface starting near a bright spot on the lower right side of the star.

The footage is a time-lapse captured by the orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on Sept. 5. It took the snake three hours to slither across the solar surface at a breakneck speed of about 170 kilometers (106 miles) per second.

The sun’s scorching temperature means all gas in its atmosphere is a plasma, a superheated state of matter. The snake was created by an interplay of plasma with the sun’s invisible magnetic field (here’s a NASA primer on how that works). Plasma responds to magnetic field lines. “The plasma in the snake is following a particularly long filament of the sun’s magnetic field that is reaching from one side of the sun to another,” ESA said in a statement on Monday.

The snake looks amazing, but it’s also of particular interest from a science perspective. “What makes the snake so inspiring is that it began from a solar active region that later erupted, ejecting billions of tonnes of plasma into space,” said the ESA, saying the snake might have been a precursor to the eruption.

ESA leads the Solar Orbiter mission in

Snap and Amazon Fashion are partnering up to provide Snapchat users with the ability to try on branded glasses and sunglasses using augmented reality filters.

Snapchat’s 363 million daily active users now have access to thousands of glasses, goggles, and sunglasses from the likes of Maui Jim, Persol, Oakley, and Costa Del Mar through the apps’ AR feature. The AR lenses don’t just overlay eyewear: in some cases, on-theme accessories are added, like knitted hats and frosted backdrops for Oakley’s line of ski sunglasses.

Snapchat users can find the new Amazon AR shopping lenses on the @amazonfashion public profile within the Snapchat app. When customers find a style they like, the item can then be purchased in the Amazon Fashion store via a link displayed on the screen.

Eyewear is the first Virtual Try-On experience and shopping lens category for the partnership, with both Snap and Amazon planning to “expand into additional verticals in the future.” Though other brands have previously created similar virtual shopping experiences using Snapchat Lenses, including MAC cosmetics, Ulta Beautyand Puma. Snap says its 250 million users engaged with its AR lenses over 5 billion times in the last year.

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