#February2012
Scientists: Mars Had Two Oceans. Me: TEARY-EYED HEAD NOD.
Water on Mars. It’s enough to get the tits of any geek tightening. Just the mere words. Scientists have it in their Wunder-Books proof that there were two oceans on the Red Planet. This makes me way, way, way too emotional for some reason.
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NASA Probe Reveals The ‘Atmosphere’ That Surrounds Our Solar System. Rad.
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, has spent four years tilling about at the frayed edges of our solar system. What has the son of a bitch found? Some really interesting things about what comprises our solar system’s “atmosphere” and theories about its formation.
Hit the jump for more.
The Helix Nebula Burns A Bright Post-Star Death Glory.
Check out the glowing glory that is the Helix Nebula. The sexy son of a bitch is an insight into what’s going to happen when the Sun goes all dead and shit, and I have to find a new solar system to fly around in my Millenium Falcon.
Video: Ridiculous Aurora From Earth’s Largest Magnetic Storm In Almost A Decade.
Chad Blakley captured the gorgeous aurora generated from one of the Earth’s most powerful geomagnetic storms in the past decade. Taken at Abisko National Park in Sweden, it’s a stunning wank-diddle moment for fans of all things beautiful and spacey.
Scientists In California Create Star Matter. What Could Go Wrong?
Scientists in California clearly don’t care about bringing along the end of the Everything with their little experiments. They’ve done gone and replicated matter that can only be found in stars and giant planets. Oh who the fuck am I kidding, maybe it’s completely safe. And pretty rocking.
Video: First Footage Of A Comet Smashing Into Sun. Or Superman Powering Up.
Check it out!, solarians. I made that word up. Means you like..solars? Solar systemarians? Something like that. Anyways – whoever (whomever? fuck me here) you are – hit the jump for the first footage of a comet rocketing into the Sun. Or of Superman collecting some cellular oomph! before he goes to throw down with Metallo. I’m preferring the latter.
Chunks of Mars Crashed In Africa Last Year. THEY’RE AMONG US.
How inter(stellar) is this? While not the first time it occurred, chunks of Mars crashed in Africa last year. Providing us with delicious samples to extract obvious signs of life from. Muahahaha! Or they’ve launched a virus or multiple virii intent on taking us over. Infiltrating our science labs via single-celled organisms and…and…
Witch Head Nebula Is Colder Than A Witch Nebula’s..Oh Forget It.
Check out the Witch Head Nebula. At first I couldn’t see it and then it was all like g’damn! Blasted me square off the tits with its similarity to some witch I had a run-in with at a bar one-time in downtown Salem. Really mess affair involving cauldrons and steaming pairs of dungarees.
Wait, so what is actually going on here?
The Little Ghost Nebula Offers A Look Into Our Future Oblivion!
Behold the Little Ghost Nebula, founded by astronomy swagger beast William Herschel back in the 18th century. The fuck are you doing with your life? Herschel was finding nebula back in the comparative goddamn dark ages. This little quaint Nebula of Ghostiness may be a look into what’ll happen to our own star.
Astronomers Have Figured Out True Color Of Milky Way Galaxy. No Rly.
I didn’t know we hadn’t tagged the color of the Milky Way Galaxy. I always figured it was a gorgeous light chocolate brown with a…oh fuck it that joke sucks. Seriously though, I didn’t think we were puzzled by it. Well, we were! Now!, now we’re not.
