#September2011
Image: Check Out The Sun’s Solar Mohawk. X-Treme.
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Alan Friedman took this gorgeous picture of a solar prominence rising off off the Sun’s dome like a goddamn solar mohawk. It’s impressive, no? It’s even more impressive when you consider the massivity of what’s lifting off the Sun’s surface.
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Video: Meteor Over Georgia Is Flaming Rock of Awesome.
On August 28 there was a pretty righteous meteor rocketing across the night sky in Georgia. It was like Deep Impact except not cataclysmic. Just rad.
Gorgeous Mosaic of the Sun. Existential Swoon.
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Check out this gorgeous mosaic of the Sun by César Cantú. The All Glowing Orb is a sexy specimen in general, but it’s looking exceptionally swank in Cantú’s work. So what exactly are we looking at here?
Image: Sand Pit On Mars. Where The Sarlacc At?
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Behold this righteous sand pit found on the surface of Mars. It leads to a cavern beneath the surface where undoubtedly Martians are planning their fatal assault on Mars-2, or what we call Earth. They terraformed it, they released us onto it, and now they’re coming home. Uh, right? Moving on.
Wondering how such a thing came to be?
The Moon Is 200 Million Years Younger Than Expected. Pock Marks Make You Look Rough, Eh?
The Moon looks rough. Pock marks, craters, what have you. Dull grey. Rough. Just from its looks I would say it’s something like 9-trillion years old. I’d be way, way off. However, even scientist-wunderminds were wrong in their estimation of the Moon’s age for a long time. The pig is 200 million years younger than previously thought.
Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson Spits Hot Fire About US Budget And The Death of Dreaming.
Because I’m a hippy liberal who watches Bill Maher while kissing my transgender significant other and eating organic cashews, I already saw this last Friday. If you’re a more balanced person and you don’t watch the show, you still need to see this rant of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Provided you love space and our continually diminishing focus on it saddens you.
It’s an epic rant.
NGC 1929 Is Looking To Inflict Street Justice On A Cosmic Scale.
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While Phil Plait sees a monkey with a gaping hole in its skull when looking at NGC 1929, I see one-half of the Punisher’s symbol. To each his own. Regardless of your psychic disposition when reading this image, NGC 1929 is a rather gorgeous gathering of stars.
Neil deGrasse Tyson To Host New Series of ‘Cosmos’, Galactic Swag!
Neil deGrasse Tyson is my current favorite astrophysicist. I don’t know many, but I know him and his smooth voice and his ability to distill the impossibly complex into easily digestible metaphor. His new gig is going to rule.
Sun Unleashes X-Class Solar Flare. Our Star Be Workin’ This Year.
You have to hand it to the Sun this year. It’s been acting up like nobody’s business. Well, except for ours I suppose. Today it set forth a gorgeous X-class solar flare. It’s scientifically proven that anything with an “X” makes it at least 100-times cooler.
Three New Dwarf Planets May Be Found Near Pluto. It Has Friends!
Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet, and everyone cried. Do not lament to hard. For not only was Pluto not the only dwarf planet when the Cosmic Canine was removed from planetary status, but now it may be getting even more friends. Discoveries abound!
