#October2012

Planet with FOUR SUNS found. Tatooine officially offers nothing.

Well shoot. Back in the day Tatooine could get by being a piece of shit desert world because it offered the novelty of two suns. Insert binary sunset. Now it doesn’t have anything to fall back upon. Researches have found a planet for four suns. A planet that farts on Tatooine will kissing its mother. A tragic tale.

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This spiral nebula ia sexy Milky Way sculpture.

Behold this gorgeous spiral structure rocking out new a local Milky Way star. Is it truly local? Cripes, yo. Relativity is everything. I reckon I’m relatively close to you, when you consider how far away from the center of the Universe we all are. Just picture me breathing on your neck.

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Video: Highlights from Felix Baumgartner’s frakin’ dive from space. So tasty.

I missed Felix’s fantastic leap from space yesterday, working the NYCC. Goddammit. If these highlights are anything to go off of, the entire endeavor was glorious.

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Rotating 3D nebula is just the space porn needed to end long weekend.

Hell yeah! Look at this, for it is the berries. Delicious, rotating 3D nebula berries.

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NASA is engineering space bugs to make bricks on Mars. Reread that. Ridiculous.

The future is here, and Ray Bradbury is spanking it beyond the grave. So it isn’t exactly willing an atmosphere into existence like Martian Chronicles, but NASA is up to some pretty goddamn spectacular stuff.

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CURIOSITY finds evidence of ancient stream on MARS. SCIENCE IS GOOD.

Bradbury high-fives all around! Curiosity has found evidence of an ancient stream of Mars. Now – dear friends – all we must do is channel our combined telepathic will into filling that stream with material of the cosmos, transforming it into a bubbling creak. Or something.

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This DWARF GALAXY is a pretty look at a potential cosmic food.

The MOON has volcanoes and craters mixing it up. Get along, all ready!

VIDEO: The Mars Curiosity landing in DELUXE SUPER HD. The glory.

The Sun shines off our GORGEOUS BLUE MARBLE