the language of the universe

you're how old, grandma?

flattered... astropixie is a "blog of note!!"

luke skywalker can't spell
from college humor

fireflies or lightning bugs?
a recent big picture set features 25 photos from the international national geographic photo contest. my favorite is a beautiful photo by steve irvine that shows "about one hour of firefly activity near my home in rural Ontario. The precision of the background star trails is an interesting contrast to the chaotic pattern of the firefly flashes."

candidate collision at LHC!
the large hadron collider (LHC) is up and running again - successfully this time! beams of particles are shooting around the tubes, and professor brian cox is reporting on twitter that this image shows a candidate collision detected by the ATLAS project!!

dirty car art

if earth had rings like saturn
here is a nice fantasy animation showing what the views might be from earth's surface if we had a ring system!