#Space
Milky Way Galaxy Is About To Get Fed, Yo!
The hulking black hole at the center of our galaxy hungers. Why? ‘Cause Galactus hangs out there. Or not. Yet it needs to be feed. Pretty soon it’s going to get a glorious gas cloud to mow on.
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Behold! The Scale of Saturn Is Existential Wunder-Nausea!
A few days ago, Phil Plait wrote a pretty righteous post about the scale of Saturn. It was swag as all Cosmic get out, but a reader of Bad Astronomy took it a step further and showed how North America would compare size-wise.
Hit the jump to behold.
The Dumbbell Nebula Gets Me Pumped For The Cosmos. Get It?!?!
Check out the Dumbbell Nebula, and peer into a look at what shall become of our Sun. Discovered through Science! and uh, Intrepitude! That’s a word. It’s a word.
Small Planets Dived Into Their Sun, And Survived. Boss Mode!
Often I think of only Kal-El being able to dive into Sol and emerge victorious. Apparently that shit ain’t true. Tiny charred-as-Vader’s-dome-piece planets have done the exactly same thing. Flex on, Planets. You deserve it.
Underwater Neutrino Detector WIll Be Second Largest Structure Built. Ever. Science ++
Let’s get a slow-clap (today is a day of clapping slowly for a variety of things, the honeyed voices of caffeine are suggesting in my brain) for science! A collection of scientific institutes and wunder-hives are coming together to built the second largest structure ever. A neutrino detector. Underwater. Wi-wi-win!
Is Vesta A Giant Asteroid Or A Protoplanet? Damned If I Know!
Straight-up: I don’t know the definition of a protoplanet, but people who do aren’t sure if the largest asteroid we’ve visited happens to be one.
Hubble Brings Us A Horseshoe Einstein Ring. Is It Lucky? Rimshot.
Man, I can’t help myself with the bad puns. That may or may not be because it’s currently 3:00 am while I write this fucker up. Truth be told we all know regardless of the time I’ll rip off something glorious like that. Anyways, what exactly is causing that horseshoe effect? Gravity! Einstein told us so.
Astronomers Find Two Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Same Star. Kepler Fist-Pump.
The Kepler observatory continues to crush it when it comes to exoplanet finds and the such. The recent most ballin’ discovery? Two Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star. Everybody drink! Woo! Or don’t drink, cause you know, it’s the middle of the work day and shit.
The Sculptor Galaxy Is Gorgeously Molded. COSMIC PUNS.
Everything Was Nicolas Cage; A Moment of Zen.
Let the musky cosmic scent of Sir Nic wash over you in these troubled times. Stressed about finals? Christmas shopping? That itch on your groin becoming a boil? Don’t worry. The Good One is watching over us.
