This stunningly trippy object is W49B, a supernova remnant 26,000 light years away from Earth. It's just a thousand yeas old, which in cosmological terms is not even a heartbeat in the life of a human. It may also be the birth place of a newborn black hole, the youngest ever detected in the galaxy. Read More >>

This image reminds me of an ovum—a female egg. But it's not inside anything on Earth. It's floating in the vastness of space—about 9,000 light years from here, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It's the Tycho supernova remnant. Read More >>

I find this funny and sad at the same time: someone at NASA had to write an article explaining the obvious to the usual morons — the doomsaying clowns claiming that the world will end in 2012 because of a nearby supernova. Read More >>