Matt Shakman still remembers the first time he set eyes on Godzilla. It was the early ‘80s, and Shakman, now a 48-year-old director, was smack dab in the middle of watching a monster movie marathon with his dad.

“I think they were probably running a few of them back to back,” Shakman tells Inverse. “I remember sitting next to my father on our old brown couch from the ‘70s, watching that original Godzilla, and him telling me that's a guy in a rubber suit walking in a miniature version of the city. It just blew my mind.”

Four decades later, Shakman found himself in an eerily familiar setting: Toho Studios in Tokyo, Japan, in the same building where they first filmed Godzilla. “Hallowed ground, for sure,” he says.

Shakman had landed the job of director on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a new Apple TV+ show set in the MonsterVerse franchise that Godzilla and King Kong currently call home — and before he took the world’s greatest monster to the next level, he needed to visit ground zero.

From one million miles away from Earth, the Euclid spacecraft has snapped its first official images — and they are stunning.

In order for the European Space Agency (ESA) mission to tackle some of the biggest questions in cosmology today, Euclid’s image must be vivid and precise.

Euclid’s grand debut proves that the mission is finally ready to document the position and shapes of billions of galaxies.

“It’s not until you fly into the depths of space and you try out your instruments for real that you figure out as to whether everything is okay,” Carole Mundell, ESA’s director of science, said during Tuesday’s live-stream to reveal the extraordinary images.