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A wee bit shy...
Great video parodying the modern combination of conspicuous consumption (food) and social media!
So, should I be upset that this is how I learn of my college-aged son's exciting achievements, via Facebook?
As if her hard partying lifestyle hadn't taken enough of a toll on her once-beautiful face, Lindsay Lohan appears to be addicted to unnecessary fillers and injections...
Wow!
Scientists made the image using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, combining hundreds of smaller images to make this giant one, like a mosaic.
Auroras may dazzle more people than usual this weekend as Earth receives a glancing blow from an enormous solar outburst that erupted on Jan. 19.
It would be absolutely fantastic if scientists coulod actually take a picture of the event horizon of a black hole. Since as we now know, even Hawking was wrong in hypothesizing that nothing escapes...
Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that. What they're hoping to glimpse is something called the "event horizon" -- the swirl of matter and energy that are visible around the rim of the black hole just before it falls into the abyss.