But none the less very cool.Anyone who has even a cursory interest in science, or astronomy specifically, or space heard about the “big announcement” of NASA had yesterday for a few days now. NASA was working hard to keep the whole thing hush-hush, so speculation abounded. My personal belief tended towards some discovery on Titan; not life per-se ( Read more... )

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Sadly it is for a video game and not actually a cartoon series or a movie, for if it was, it would be the most awesome movie of awesomeness to come out of awesometown.

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You can recognize most of the characters from the original Eighties cartoon series even with all the modernization to their looks, which is just freakin' awesome. If you are ( Read more... )

I know the buzz of the day is the Nobel committee handing out the peace prize to the Golden One in hopes to politically promote him as world savior (I guess everyone needs a religion).

Meanwhile, real progress is being made in the field of astronomy. This morning NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, launched back on ( Read more... )

That a look at this image. Is it not gorgeous? However it is special simply beyond the breathtaking photography, it also represents a first, something we haven't seen before...


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Because something else but Chewfox drama must be posted, and because I am still on the 12 hour workday schedule and unable to produce much of deep substance or though. I give thee, quotes from Plan 9 from Outer Space! Enjoy!

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Back in February, COROT-7b, an exoplanet discovered around the star COROT-7, a G9V type star (translation for those not in the know: slightly cooler and smaller then our Sun) some 490 light years away, made waves as the smallest exoplanet discovered thus far.

What made this discovery even more interesting is the announcement today that COROT-7b is ( Read more... )

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3-D.

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This is why astronomy (and science in general) is so compelling to me. We discovered all these galaxies billions of light years away simply because we were curious. To see the universe as it was over 13 billion years ago, simply because we wondered and asked. All of this was found because people wanted to ( Read more... )

It's Friday, how about something light hearted and fun.

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Enjoy!

There are very few events that are significant enough to represent the start of a new epoch in human history, but July 20, 1969, 40 years ago today, was one such event. I speak of the day when our species first set foot on the Moon. that faithful day when Apollo 11 with it's three astronauts, Neil Alden Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin ( Read more... )