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Hubble captures the death of a Sun-Like Star, it’s a beautiful demise

Hubble reveals NGC 2440

Hubble captures the death of a sun-like star, and we’re all the better for it. Thank you, Hubble. For capturing its glory. Me? I’m either going to die from a fall, or covered in my own feces and surrounded by Pepsi Max cans (regardless of age).

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Hubble Deep Field Images capture New Type of Galaxy

Hubble Deep Field Images capture New Type of Galaxy

Motherfuckin’ Hubble doin’ work, son! Its deep field images have captured an entirely new type of galaxy.

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Space Swoon: Saturn’s moon Pan is small but effective

Space Swoon: This Nebula is a High-Excitating Blob

Into the storm

Seriously, astronomers call this nebula a High-Excitating Blob. Space ain’t just awesome, apparently it is fun.

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European Space Agency’s lost Philae lander has been found; wedged into crack on its comet

wedged!

Poor fucking Philae. Out there in space, on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Wedged into a crack, lost, lost, lost. But now, found! By the space probe Rosetta!

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Space Swoon: Jupiter’s South Pole as never before seen

New Horizons has taken pictures of *another* dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt

50000 Quaoar

New Horizon ain’t just snapping shots of Pluto, everyone’s favorite (dwarf) planet. Nah. Nah! It’s also snapping shots of 50000 Quaoar. A dwarf planet roughly half the size of Pluto.

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Astronomers find radio signal so strong that it *may* be from aliens

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Like, we all know this isn’t going to turn out to be aliens, right? And even if it were aliens, there’s no way the Trilateral Commission and Anti-Disclosure Bastards would let us know the signal was real, right? Let’s get excited anyways, though. For now.

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Space Swoon: NASA’s Juno spacecraft speeds towards Jupiter’s North Pole

towards jupiter

NASA has just flown a spacecraft closer to Jupiter than ever before. The Solar System’s bulwark (seriously, big bastard eats so much space debris so we can not be obliterated so we can watch reality shows and attack one another with horrible, horrible mad-made weaponry, so uh, thanks?) is getting a thorough examination, courtesy of the Juno spacecraft.

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Massive new Galaxy revealed to be 99% Dark Matter; Elder Things Everywhere

dark matter galaxy

New galaxy. 99% Dark Matter. Let’s be honest, this is where the Elder Things are waiting. Waiting to reveal themselves. I, for one, love comma splices, and welcome them.

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