Often I think of only Kal-El being able to dive into Sol and emerge victorious. Apparently that shit ain’t true. Tiny charred-as-Vader’s-dome-piece planets have done the exactly  same  thing. Flex on, Planets. You deserve it.

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Man, I can’t help myself with the bad puns. That may or may not be because it’s currently 3:00 am while I write this fucker up. Truth be told we all know regardless of the time I’ll rip off something glorious like that. Anyways, what exactly is causing that horseshoe effect? Gravity! Einstein told us so.

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The Kepler observatory continues to crush it when it comes to exoplanet finds and the such. The recent most ballin’ discovery? Two Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star. Everybody drink! Woo! Or don’t drink, cause you know, it’s the middle of the work day and shit.

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Yo! Check out the Sculptor Galaxy. It lies a mere ten-million light years away. If you think this glimpse of it is sexy, you should seen what they’ve made of the place since!

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NASA’s Voyager 1 has been rummaging around the solar system since 1977. 19-fucking-77! That’s a considerable amount of time, and it has grown bored of this little portion of the galaxy. Soon, soon indeed!, it’s going to bid adieu to our solar system. That’s right, the first man-made object is about to leave the Sun’s domain. Incredible.

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Centaurus A. Check that motherfucker out. There’s some serious shit going on in this picture. Most notably a hungry-ass black hole eating the remnants of two collided galaxies. Rock.

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Check out Vesta. Big son of a bitch asteroid. It’s got one of the most impressive cliffs in this little quaint solar system, and its majesty was recently captured by the robotic Dawn spacecraft.

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How fucking awesome is this? NASA launched their new Mars rover today, Curiosity. Even more amazing? I’ve never realized that it’s a 345-million mile journey. Just wrap your brainstem around the sort of distances we can cover. Tremendous.

Hit the jump to see the launch, and for some deets.

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This enormous cosmic view features two of the best known star clusters that we can see from our Small Water Planet. Pleiades and Hydaes, roll call!

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The Sun hasn’t been fucking around this year. Massive solar activity, sunspots. So we haven’t been messing around in our coverage of it. Check out this big beautiful picture of our Solar Engine.

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