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Sesame Street writers vote for strike if ‘fair deal’ is not reached – Sky News

Sesame Street writers have unanimously voted to support strike action should a deal not be reached after two months of negotiations over pay and union coverage.

A group of writers for Sesame Workshop, the producer of the hit children’s TV show, began bargaining on 13 February ahead of their contract expiring on 19 April.

Picketing will begin outside the offices in New York next week if a “fair new collective bargaining agreement” is not made in time, they have said.

Sesame Workshop has said it is hopeful a deal will be reached before then, according to US media reports.

Sesame Street Muppet characters Count von Count, left, Elmo and Grover attend the Sesame Workshop annual benefit gala in New York in May 2023. Pic: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
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Count von Count (L) Elmo and Grover pictured at the Sesame Workshop annual benefit gala in May 2023. Pic: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The writers – members of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) – are requesting industry standard annual raises, improvements to residuals (payments when work is reused), and union coverage for the organisation’s animation and social media segments.

Sesame Workshop is a global not-for-profit organisation that produces Sesame Street, alongside other children’s TV shows such as Helpsters and The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo.

If it goes ahead, the writers walkout would follow the months-long strikes by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and US actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, which brought Hollywood to a standstill in 2023.

‘Millions of parents are going to have questions’

WGAE president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen said: “No one wants to see a picket line on Sesame Street.

“Millions of parents and families around the world are going to have a lot of questions.”

Earlier this year, fan favourite character Elmo delivered a message to fans after being inundated with people saying they were struggling with life – with even US President Joe Biden joining the conversation. During the pandemic, the show broadcast a special to help children “feel connected in this time of uncertainty”.

The WGA Sesame Workshop negotiating committee said its writers are “deeply committed to the work that we do”, and “work hard at telling stories… inspired by heart, curiosity, community, kindness, diversity, equity, and inclusion”.

In a statement, it added: “We are committed to working with Sesame Workshop to codify a fair contract for writers that embodies these values, and which allows the Workshop to continue to attract top-level talent who can artfully create stories that successfully balance entertainment, playfulness, and joy with education and enrichment.

“Our demands would be extremely meaningful for the affected writers, particularly those in animation who are currently being excluded from basic union benefits and protections like pension and healthcare.”

The committee said it hoped for a “speedy and amicable resolution” to continue helping the next generation “grow smarter, stronger and kinder”.

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Sky News has contacted Sesame Workshop for comment.

In a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline in the US, a spokesperson for Sesame Workshop said: “Our writers are integral members of our creative team, and we are engaged in good faith negotiations with the WGA. We’re still hopeful that we’ll come to an agreement in advance of the expiration.”

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Chandra X-ray Osbervatory Crab Nebula Cassiopeia A timelapse videos – Sky at Night Magazine

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has released two new timelapse movies showing dramatic changes in two of the most famous supernova remnants in the Universe: the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A.

The supernova movies were both created using x-ray data captured by Chandra over a span of two decades.

The Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A are among the most famous examples of a type of object known as a supernova remnant.

They are all that remain of two massive stars that exploded, leaving an ethereal cloud of cosmic gas and dust in their wake.

Crab Nebula

Still from a timelapse movie of supernova remnant the Crab Nebula captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, A. Jubett, K. Arcand
Still from a timelapse movie of supernova remnant the Crab Nebula captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, A. Jubett, K. Arcand

The first of the two Chandra X-Ray Observatory timelapse movies shows changes in the Crab Nebula.

The supernova that would eventually form the Crab Nebula was recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054 as a bright new point of light in the sky,

The Crab Nebula is 6,500 lightyears from Earth and at its centre lurks a dense stellar remnant known as a neutron star.

This neutron star is a type that’s known as a pulsar, a spinning star that rotates about 30 times a second, sending a beam of radiation in the direction of Earth in the same way a lighthouse appears to flash at regular intervals.

The pulsar is sending out large amounts of energy into its surroundings.

A strong, rapid flow of matter and anti-matter particles are smashing into the surrounding nebula, producing a shockwave that can be seen as a ring formation in the Chandra timelapse.

The timelapse covers a period of 22 years of Chandra observations and shows changes in both the ring formation and the jets.

Cassiopeia A

Still from a timelapse movie of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, A. Jubett, K. Arcand
Still from a timelapse movie of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, A. Jubett, K. Arcand

Cassiopeia A is all that’s left of a supernova that occured about 340 years ago, and this new Chandra timelapse uses observations of Cas A spanning from 2000 to 2019.

Cassiopeia A is an expanding stellar explosion made up of shockwaves, where particles are being accelerated to energies higher even than those seen on Earth in the Large Hadron Collider.

These shockwaves slam into surrounding cosmic material and slow down, generating a second shockwave that reflects backwards towards the source.

Chandra data had previously revealed that Cas A also has a neutron star at its centre, and the observatory has been able to map elements forged inside the star.

The images in the Cas A movie were created and processed by a team led by Yusuke from Rikkyo University in Japan.

chandra.harvard.edu

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