#November2012
Cornell University honors Carl Sagan with sexy LED light display.
Before Neil deGrasse Tyson was the astronomer du jour, there was the first homeboy Carl Sagan. Cornell University is paying tribute to the original astronomer to penetrate the mind-pieces of the pop culture zeitgeist with a rather radical laser light display.
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Gas Cloud Colliding With Our Galaxy’s Black Hole Next Year. Take That, Mayans!
Pah, Mayans! Pah! Our Existence will not be ending this year. No, no. Instead I’m pretty sure we’re going to be felled by a gas cloud colliding with the black hole in the center of our galaxy. I can sense it.
The War and Peace Nebula Is Gorgeous Interstellar Violence
The War and Peace nebula is laying waste across space a mere 8,000 light-years away.
NASA Downgrades AG5 Asteroid Threat. Only SLIM Chance It Pounds Earth’s Face.
Good news, folks. That sneaky asteroid that we discovered only a half-year ago is probably totally only not really going to maybe not definitely perhaps strike our face.
Former NASA Scientist: FTL May Be Achieved Between Years 2300 and 3000. There Goes My Bucket List.
FTL travel is the holy grail of science-fiction dorks. It is what shall let us venture into the depths of space, colonizing planets and ruining shit outside of our own solar system. Unfortunately, we aren’t anywhere near achieving the son of a bitch, if it’s even possible.
EARTH-LIKE Planets More Common Than Thought, Every Star Has Planets. Woah.
Ain’t this a hell of a find. New astronomical wizards have come to the conclusion that every star has planets. Take that factoid, and all of a sudden the possibility of Earth-like planets skyrockets. Or is it spacerockets? Yeah, I know. Groan.
Space: Check Out Thackeray’s Globules, Or The Biggest Dust Bunnies Evar.
Oh, sexy. Check out Thackeray’s Globules. They’re so shiny. And enormous. And something? Not sure where I’m going with this conceit. Anyways, behold interstellar dust clouds, the largest of which are a goddamn light-year wide.
Milky Way Galaxy COLLIDING With The Andromeda Galaxy…In 4 Billion Years. Can’t Wait.
I’ve read before about the gnarly collision that is destined between our own home galaxy and that sliding son of a bitch Andromeda. Unfit to let our eventual collision be left as a burden on other homo-martian-neptunians, NASA astronomers have decided to let the world know.
ISS Astronaut After Seeing The Inside of SpaceX Dragon Capsule: Looks Like A “Sci-Fi Set”
The SpaceX Dragon capsule is all up at the ISS, being awesome. Holding court. One of the astronauts at the ISS has posted impressions of the capsule, and all indications is that it is super-swank mode.
NANOSATELLITES Powered By Kinect Could Snap Together Like LEGO; Yeah, Space!
This is goddamn insanity. Bonkers! Nanosatellites are real, and thanks to Kinect they could be snapped together like LEGO. Forming super-satellites that can see me as I wank to various unfortunate feeds on Tumblr. I made that last part up.
