#March2014
Space Swoon: NGC 1333 got that gorgeous cosmic stardust
NGC 1333 , man. I remember that place. Cruising around in the Space-Ship Omega. Picking up Hot Space Folk. Getting them to laugh at my jokes, show me their trisected brain-nipples. It was wild. This image doesn’t really capture all of that, but it’s a good start.
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NASA planning ROBOTIC MISSION to Europa to SEARCH FOR LIFE.
We’re going to Europa! With a fucking robot in tow! Make no mistake about it, we’re hunting down life. The Europians shall soon know the glory that is McDonald’s, American football, and human excess! Flee while you can, fuckers!
Stephen Hawking: there ain’t such a thing as a black holes. Dummies!
Sort of! Sort of. That’s the sexy, sensational headline. And I’m not Mary Jane or Peter Parker, but I want desperately to be both sexy and sensational. Anyways. So black holes *do* fucking exist, but apparently it is possible for shit to escape their tyrannical gape.
Water plumes seen on DWARF PLANET CERES
Ceres. You big fucking rock-ice asteroid motherfucker. Holding out on us all this time. I mean we (humans, space-wizards in particular) thought you had some form of water on you. But you just wouldn’t let us confirm it. Now you’re just flaunting your water supply. And frankly, it’s ostentatious.
COMET-HUNTING spacecraft ROSETTA woke up after three years. Is like, sup.
Today, I’ve had more than a couple of friends point me in the direction of this dopeness. This means two things. First, despite enough stimulants in my system to kill an ogre, I’m slowing down. Losing my grip. Second, my friends get me. Anyways, this isn’t about me! (I swear!) Rosetta is a comet-hunting spacecraft that has spent the last two years all slumbering and shit. Today! Today, it woke up.
The International Space Station mission shall live until 2024. At least.
Here’s one victory for us space nerdos. The International Space Station’s mission just got extended until 2021. More than enough time for me to hone my space-skillz, so I can join my post-Earth brethren up there.
Hubble finds EVIDENCE OF CLOUDS on a distant planet. Good looks, telescope.
Hubble ain’t fucking around. Despite not being designed to detect clouds and shit in the atmosphere, the plucky son of a bitch is doing it anyways! Oh wow! Oh fuck! How did the telescope pull off such a feat?
Hit the jump to find out! Big market tease! 2014! Fuck yeahhh.
Watch: NASA robot combines OCULUS RIFT + KINECT. Future rules, brah.
NASA ain’t letting the upcoming Robot Apocalypse dissuade them from utilizing current technologies. Until it strikes, of course. Then they’ll just be paste like the rest of us. Until that happens though, they’re doing jazzy things like combining the both the Oculus Rift and XB1’s Kinect. For great justice. Or great…science?
ASTRONOMERS discover first EXOMOON. Maybe.
Well, I had no idea. No! Idea! That we weren’t already in the exomoon game. Just sort of figured that all those exoplanets we were spotting had their own luna-esque buddies.
Watch: CHINA lands on the f**king MOON.
As I’ve intimated in other places – I don’t care what nation of humanity explores space, or for what reasons. I’m lumping us all together and considering it a win for us barely not-primates. This weekend China landed on the fucking moon. So I’m high-fiving for all of us.
Hit the jump to check it out.
