Okay so I know I haven't updated here for a while (and I swear I've got some choice links for when I do!) but this is absolutely amazing! :O

Just some entertainment I thought I'd share, before I start making mosaics of Spitzer data!

Firstly, todays PhD comic: Great Tweets of Science. I especially like Darwin's. XD

And secondly, LOLCats in ur quantum box.

That is all, other than the news that it looks like the shuttle launch has been rescheduled (again... times four) for tomorrow night. Here's hoping!

So! Provided you can figure out how to do it (there's an instructions section, I had to read it XD), NASA is holding Mission Madness in honor of basketball's March Madness. Go vote for Hubble your favorite missions!

And now for something random and totally not actually scientific:

Pepsi is clearly the pinnacle of the universe!

(Personally, I think they should have referenced the COBE dipole map of the CMB, that would've really clinched their argument!)

Some cool recent articles from Discover, partly because I don't want to forget about them, myself! XD

Green comet!

LHC back up in September?

So, in case you don't know, 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy! (Yay!) As a special event commemorating this year, there's a neat "contest" that NASA is holding to decide the next object it will look at! (Though I wonder how well this is going to go over, if Hubble is still the walking orbiting dead...) But anyway, you can choose from a list of objects Hubble has never observed before and enter a drawing for one of 100 new Hubble pictures of the winning object. Vote by March 1st!

Click here!


As a side note, one of the postdocs claims that at least one of the targets has been observed before, but I suppose it really doesn't matter all that much in the end. ^^;

I saw this the other day and thought it was pretty interesting. It's an article on how quantum entanglement - the idea that two particles can be so closely connected via quantum physics that changes in one instantaneously affect the other - might actually dissolve under some conditions.

ENTANGLEMENT SUDDEN DEATH! D<

Craziness!

Okay, so this is much later than I'd hoped, but I did it! Finally. :D;;

( The Pioneer Anomaly! )

Next up... I have no idea. XD Maybe something random and exciting? Either that or an explanation of X-ray point sources, because I cannot escape them. XD;

Okay. I know I'm still way behind and owe Adam a Pioneer Anomaly post (which I really will try to get to soon!), but in the meantime, this is freaking awesome. :O

While I take a brief break at work here, have the latest XKCD comic, which is actually a pretty amusing good illustration of just how far things are from Earth:

( The Observable Universe, From Top To Bottom! )