#OccupySun Stupid Sun has more than 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System.  Mass hog!

“On March 28, NASA’s Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope discovered a series of powerful X-ray blasts coming from a source in the constellation Draco. Astronomers around the world studied the unusual explosion, which is now known as Sw 1644+57. More than two months later, and with high-energy X-rays still coming from the spot, astronomers are convinced they’re witnessing the destruction of a star as it plunges into the central black hole of a galaxy nearly 4 billion light-years away. The star was ripped apart by the black hole’s intense tidal forces, and its gas continues to stream inward.”

“Evidence for a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy (NGC 3993) has been found in data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This main image is a composite of X-rays from Chandra (blue) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) of the spiral galaxy NGC 3393. Meanwhile, the inset box shows the central region of NGC 3993 as observed just by Chandra”

From mothernaturenetwork:

New estimate for alien Earths: 2 billion in our galaxy alone
Scientists are seeking out worlds that are roughly the size of Earth and are the right distance from their suns to have liquid water on the planet.

NASA gets Bricked.  They also launched some Lego min-figs into space recently.  Hope they took the extra weight into consideration for their fuel needs.