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A sun dog is a prismatic bright spot in the sky caused by sun shining through ice crystals. The Atlas V rocket exceeded the speed of sound in this layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground.
Via Fazed
Awesome news: Astronomers have discovered a new planet with solid ground
Shitty news: The planet’s surface temperature is over 3,600 degrees F., and it rotates around its sun in a mere 20 hours, which means its moving at 466,000 MPH.
Summary: We should probably stop fucking up our own planet so much because we haven’t found [...]
Here is a collection of some awesome new pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, personal favorite is below.
Via HuffingtonPost
Great graphic timeline showing the assembly of the Space Station.
Via USAToday
Gotta love space, this time lapse video is spectacular:
USA Today has a great animation of the changes to the space station since inception. I had no idea the space station was being updated so regularly. Very cool to see how it will progress in the future as well.