#Space
NASA spots huge hole near SUN’S NORTH POLE. Size of 50 Earths. LOL.
Here is some hump-day perspective. NASA has spotted a rip-roaring coronal hole on the Earth. This son of a bitch is large. We’re talking to the tune of 50 Earth’s placed side by side. Dios mio.
UK TEAM unveils PRETTY FRIGGIN’ DETAILED PLAN to send HUMANS TO MARS
Perhaps fittingly, the Imperial College of London has unveiled a detailed-as-fuck plan to send humans to Mars.
CASSINI captures EARTH and THE MOON from Saturn. Perspective++
Behold the wonder of perspective! Yeah, it’s a grainy piece of shit picture. Still though! What it signifies is pretty outrageous. Thurr be in that picture the Blue Marble and the Moon. As seen from Cassini up in Saturn’s hood.
The HIDDEN GALAXY shines bright LIKE A POP SONG REFERENCE
Get it? It shines bright like a pop song reference, as opposed to me directly quoting that song about shining bright like a diamond! Oh I’m so witty (and fucking stupid). This is a pretty sexy picture of IC 342 – but I’m just going to go ahead and rename it Rihannaville.
Space Porn: The MOON from SOVIET RUSSIA’S SPACECRAFT.
I had never heard of the Soviet’s spacecraft, the Zond 8. You see, they taught us in elementary school that the Soviets were vodka-drinking Godless heathens who didn’t fly. No, no. Impoverished from their filthy Communism, they threw rocks at one another and silently begged for American intervention. Well, now I know better! Such a spacecraft existed, and it took a sexy picture of the moon.
Hit the jump to check it out.
THE SOMBRERO GALAXY is the Cosmos’ Dope Hat. #CrapPostTitles
Yo! Whatever. I know that the post title is utter dreck, a salute to running out of ideas. Dismiss my nonsense, instead deciding to bask in the glory that is the Sombrero galaxy.
Hit the jump for the full image, and more on this little gem.
HUBBLE FINDS BLUE-PLANET that RAINS GLASS. Sounds rough. Count me out.
Here is a hell of a fucking find. The Hubble Telescope has uncovered a nice blue planet! We love Blue Planets, right?! Slow your roll, holmes. What if I told you that this planet also had 4,500 mile-per-hour winds? And rained glass? Yeah, I’m canceling my flight too.
NASA: Our SOLAR SYSTEM has a friggin’ TAIL.
I say goddamn! Now our solar system is yet another entity I’m in love with that has a tail. Them fucking tails are so seductive. Like, great for balancing. And sticking into input units and shit. Wait — it isn’t a literal tail?
PLUTO’S NEW MOONS GOT NAMES; Totally rocking the Underworld Motif
Pluto’s new moons have gotten themselves names. And if you’re a Star Trek fan who was making the push for Vulcan, you’re going to be disappointed. However, fans of Roman mythology are going to be tugging at their proverbial pink bits. Shit — maybe their actual pink bits. I don’t know how you fucks handle good news. Whatever floats your boat. Stirs your drink. Et cetera.
PAYPAL + SETI = creation of a SPACE BANK. No, srsly.
Ah, sometimes the future is so obviously emerging. Emergent. Both. PayPal and SETI have teamed up to create a nascent sort of space bank. They dare to dream of a world where us lead feet are off the Big Blue Marble. You know, spending Space Bux on hookers and spices on Ceres. They imagine this future, and whilst they do they also realize something. All of those transactions need a mechanism, and they want to provide it.