… on Neptune, that is.
Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway in Ireland is made up of more than 40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt crystals.
Optical illusions
From the awesome Bill Nye:
A star with a comet’s tail
Mira (pronounced “my-rah”) is a red giant star over 400 light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer probe recently took the amazing ultraviolet picture below:
Over the last 30,000 years Mira has been throwing off layers of stellar material as it runs out of fuel, creating a tail thirteen light-years long. That’s a tail more than 76,000,000,000,000 miles long!
Jetpacks are awesome
This is the coolest thing you’ll see today.