Beautiful Shot Of The Pinwheel Galaxy.

The Pinwheel Galaxy (higher res version HERE) got its name because it looks like a pinwheel. Geez, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure that one out. Or maybe it's cause it loves Little Debbie Pecan Spinwheels so much. Well guess what -- so do I! And Starcrunches? Don't even get me started!!

This new three-color composite image was captured by the Isaac Newton Telescope in La Palma, Spain.

Known more officially as Messier 101 or NGC 5457, this classic spiral galaxy is 27 million light years from Earth in the Ursa Major constellation, also known as the Big Dipper. Its slight asymmetry is thought to be the result of an encounter with another galaxy in the recent (astronomically speaking) past. This event also left many huge clouds of glowing gas and plasma known as H II regions.

Though the galaxy, which measures 170,000 light-years across, is visible with the naked eye as a fuzzy spot, large telescopes are needed to see any detail.

You know what I love most about outerspace? I heard it's super quiet. What do you mean, "space is vacuum"? Those things are loud as shit!

Source: Geekologie.com

NASA Discovers 11 Billion-Year-Old Supernova.

Eleven billion, that's pretty old. Probably dated your mom in high school. Ba-ba-ba-burn!

Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.

The ancient supernova was found after astronomers compared several years of images taken from a portion of the sky, enabling them to look for objects that changed in brightness over time.

The universe is believed to be 13.7 billion years old, so the supernova marks the death of one of earliest stars in creation.

The previous supernova record was an event that happened around six billion years ago.

Ooh, I feel a song coming on. *ahem*

Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide
in a bourbon supernova
a gin & tonic black dwarf in the bar.

Thanks to Torotoro from Alabanyor, who is old enough to be your father. And might be.

Source: Geekologie.com

Slumdog vs. Twilight: Who Should Hook Up?

Assuming, of course, they haven't already.

In one corner, we have Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, the Slumdog Millionaire stars who always appeared superclose while out promoting their Oscar-winning flick but insisted that any romance between them was strictly onscreen.

Hmmm, then maybe they can help us decipher the latest pics making the rounds that show these "friends" enjoying what seems to be a rather intimate lunch in Israel this week.

And in the other corner, there's Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, who certainly don't need any introduction here, given our obsession the phenomenon that is Twilight, and much like Dev and Freida (or can we call them Devda?), clues of a coupling are quickly mounting. That, or it's all just wishful thinking.

So what say you? Which offscreen pairing would you like to see happen? Please let us know, as we can't quite decide since much of our focus today has been on that other couple, Lindsay and Sam.
Source: E!Online

We Are All Made Of Stars

Uma grande música de um grande senhor.