#December2013
Astronomers discover “planet that shouldn’t exist.” But it f**king does!
Oh, astronomers! You know so little! Or rather you present facts to us, we use phrases like “planet that shouldn’t exist” and then we’re up in your ass when you present findings about a “planet that shouldn’t exist.” So I guess it is us fat-brained proles who rather suck. Or just me. I suck.
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Watch: SATURN’S TRIPPY JET STREAM
Up at Saturn’s north pole is a pretty bananas circulation of gas. Said circulation of gas forms the “north polar vortex” and the whole son of a bitch not only forms a hexagon, but it’s enormous. Astronomers have released a gif of the highest-definition capture of this vortex yet, and it’s trippy.
Hit the jump for more details and to check it out.
BRITISH THINK TANK is revisiting their 40 year-old plan to BUILD SPACE COLONIES.
Yeah fuckers, yeah! It’s about time we got some Brits drumming up ways to colonize the fucking space-lands. I mean, ’cause let’s face it. We’re only going to ride this awesome wave of ecocide for so long before we’re eating dirt and drinking boogers.
Or something.
China launches LUNAR ROVER. All exploring the Moon and such.
China’s on the moon! Or, their lunar rover shall be soon enough. The humanist in me is all like “fuck yeah, humanity’s back on the moon!” The jingoist with American pride is all, “god dammit, when are we going back?!”
South of Orion lies a NEBULA that parties like it’s 1999.
Get it? ‘Cause it’s called NGC 1999. So like, it’s partying. Like that Prince song. Ha! Hahaha! Oh whatever.
Today NASA launches MAVEN, their latest MARS MISSION.
NASA is launching another mission to Mars. Going down today. The latest little scientific jaunt (is there any other kind at this point? Blessed be Uncle Ray’s heart — no) is aimed at figuring out just where the fuck Mars’ water went.
SPACEGASM: The MILKY WAY may have 20 BILLION EARTH-SIZED PLANETS.
Kepler is always doing work! On its galactic grind. Crunching numbers. The latest calculations bound to blow out your space-bunghole is the finding that one out of every five sunlike stars has a planet the size of Earth.
EARTH has HELLACIOUS EXOPLANET TWIN
Earth! It has itself a fucking twin. The only problem is that this Exoplanet twin is a scalding little piece of hell, constantly whipping around its star with an impressive fervor.
SPACE SWOON: The Little Sombrero Hanging Out In Pegasus
Check out the Little Sombrero. Just hanging out. Completely chill. How chill? The LS (as we who are its friends call it) is so chill that it doesn’t even mind being called “Little”, despite the fact that it’s pretty much the same size as the Sombrero Galaxy proper.
MASSIVE STAR carving itself out a GALACTIC CASTLE
NGC 6357 ain’t fucking around. The diffuse nebula is churning out some of the most massive stars smarter people than me have ever discovered. What gives? Why is it behaving in such a manner? Life is short, do work. Do work, son!
