#June2012
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.
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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.
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returning To Earth Today At 11:44 ET
The SpaceX Dragon Capsule has already given all of his space dorks swollen groins by being the first commercial-thingy to dock with the ISS. Now it is going to return home, collect the roses laid at its feet, and tongue-screw all of our mothers. We are fine with this.
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.
IMAGE: There Is More Water On JUPITER’S MOON EUROPA Than Earth.
We don’t quite treat our water supply here on Earth with much respect. No worries though. I mean, what can we do? As a Western culture? Drawback? Pah! Cut down on our corpulence? Pah! We just need to head to Europa.
NASA Develops Vacuum Tube Prototype for SPACE COMPUTERS. Rad Res++
Something I’ve never really thought of: how computers would stand up to the unkind blasts of radiation in space. Thankfully there are smarter people out there, who can think of space without inevitably diverging into “like, we’re all from the Big Bang, mannn” like me.
Russia Planning On Builidng PERMANENT MOON BASE; My Space Heart Swells
The Cold War is heating up again! Russia is going full Bond, revealing their intentions of building a permanent base. ‘Cept I don’t really care that its Russia, cause at least someone is planning it. ‘Cept I don’t think they’d tell anyone if they were building something nefarious. Or would they? Plot! Thickens!
WATCH: Around Saturn In 8 Years With Cassini
This video reminds me of some straight-up Méliès shit. Nahum Chazarra is a geology student who has piece together eight years of pictures from Cassini into a jittery batch of gorgeous video.
