#August2011
Scientists Find 96 New Star Clusters In The Milky Way! Rock.
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Stars form in big ass groups known as open clusters. People smarter than me have tabulated that there should be about 30,000 of these sons a bitches lurking out in the Milky Way. Limited as we are, we haven’t found nearly that many.
Recently however, we found 96 more. Stick with it, boyos!
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Oxygen Molecules Discovered In Space For First Time! Frak Space Helmets!…Right?
Oxygen molecules have been discovered in space for the first time! This explains why the Silver Surfer has always been buzzin’ around the cosmos wearing nothing but his birthday suit. Right? That’s totally how it works. Oxygen in space means no space helmets, dongs out! No? You’re certain it’s not?
Time-Lapse Shows Discovery As She’s Parked At The ISS, Orbiting Our Lovely Rock.
Well, there ain’t no more space shuttles to be had. Yet they serve as the gift that keeps on giving. Check out this latest example. The NASA Goddard Space Light Center put out this gorgeous time-lapse video. Behold Discovery as its docked to the International Space station, orbiting our Glorious Blue Rock. Set to some classic music, it’s pretty like woah.
That’s When I Saw The UFO
I saw a UFO a couple of nights ago. It was the damndest thing. I saw a UFO. I saw it. Miniscule, a star in the sky. I saw it. Nothing but an orange spec. I saw a UFO. I saw it spiral through the evening sky. Spinning in improbable circles. I’m telling you. It was the damndest thing. One moment a single orange star in the evening, the next moment a bright slash cutting across the sky. Quickly and with purpose. Spiraling through unseen loops, an orange blur across a midnight expanse.
Earth’s First Trojan Asteroid Discovered. Not A Condom, Nor A Horse.
The Leo Triplet Is Three Galaxies Hangin’ Out Close To One Another, Being Gorgeous.
Planetary Nebula Kn 61 Looks Like A Cosmic Soap Bubble.
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Check out Kn 61. It’s a planetary nebula that looks like those soap bubbles you can blow with those magical wands they sell at convenience stores and the like. Perhaps the Omnidimensional Creator had a son or daughter who was bored and it gave them the most enormous of soap bubble matter spewing wands. And thus Kronberger 61 was born. Or maybe it’s the remnants of gas that was sent into space by a dying star. I think I like my explanation more.
One Black Hole Contains 140 Trillion Times the Water On Earth. What A Hog.
There’s a black hole out there a mere 12 billion light-years away that contains 140 trillion times the water on Earth. Son of a bitch is hogging all those resources and here we are feeling guilty for peeing in the ocean and running our showers too long. Greedy piece of space shit.
See NASA’s MESSENGER Bid Earth Adieu.
NASA’s MESSENGER is their mission to study the surface of Mercury. However back in 2005 as it hurtled away from good old planet Earth, it took a series of photographs. Intrepid researchers have since then stitched those photographs together to make a rather pretty farewell video.
The Moon Goes Rainbow In Sexy Surface Study.
You may think that the Moon is some boring ass rock lingering above us. Threatening to smash us down like innocent whelps as though we were living in Majora’s Mask. You’d be wrong! There’s a lot of shenanigans populating the Moon’s surface. This colorized NASA image shows the differences in surface composition.
