Quite literally. Sometimes I like being reminded of just how much beauty and glory there is in the heavens.

Take a look at this pulsar

A planet literally made out of diamonds has been discovered. I am not kidding.

I do know someone who'd be pleased by this:


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They saw this.


Apollo 11 meets Nightmare Moon by ~Br0nyma5t3r on deviantART

The carvers just got tired of someone messing with their freaking sun!


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I got this link from cutelildrow.

Vampire stars cannibalize other stars to maintain their youth.

Really, doesn't that sound like something Lovecraft or John Keel would write? And yet it's actually happening.

And the real problem is -- where do you get a wooden stake long enough to reach their hearts? Maybe Van Helsing needs to join the Lensmen.

There's something strange visiting the skies of Norway. Look at the picture. Does anyone here have a good explanation for what it is? It looks like an especially bizarre manifestation of the Northern Lights to me.

I wonder, how long before the UFO crowd gets involved?

Astronomers have found a planet that overturns what they thought they knew about the heavens. Again. Read all about Wasp-18b!

Hey, anyone else here old enough to remember when the mere existence of extrasolar planets was considered a permanently unprovable fairy tale?

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How oddly appropriate for the Devil's Prom Night. Something has been found in space that probably came into existence when the universe was a 'mere' 800,000,000 years old.

Giant mystery blob discovered in space.

Doesn't that just scream "Lovecraftian cosmic horror"?

Polish satellite (Poland has a satellite??) took a picture of a gamma ray burster, the mightiest explosion in nature, to be found right here.

So how long until we all get superpowers? :D

And oh yes, a very happy birthday to both xianjaguar and marirosa.

Just wanted to post this so I would talk about something other than occultism or society for once. The Hubble 'Scope catches a picture of a black hole in mid-belch:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24280422/?GT1=43001

Myself, I'm still hoping they find out what the Great ( Read more... )