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    stevok: Love the Hubble Deep Field Pics. Here's an animated flythrough of the Ultra Deep Field more »
    Hahaue: I'm just... I'm speechless. There are no words for the sheer beauty of that image, just as there are no words for the crushing terror when you try to ... more »
    acrobatic rabbit: i want to go to there. more »
    rikarus: wow amazing and the scale of things are beyond comprehension...amazing more »
    Kitradu: I'm glad I'm among this crowd on io9...it boggles my mind and saddens me deeply that there are people who could look at this image and be all "so what... more »
    burlybax: This photo makes the think of the MIB marble scenes. Awesome. more »
    Darklighter: I wholly approve of more io9/Bad Astronomy crossover. more »
    shaunmcilroy: Turn your head to the left and it looks like Jon Pertwees head from the old credits to Doctor Who. more »
    Malloc: The 4.6Mpixel version from the Bad Astronomy Blog makes for a great wallpaper with a bit of photoshop cleanup. Great for when you need a reminder for ... more »
    enderwiggin13: There's billions and billions of stars, billions and billions of specks... more »
    The_Sporean_Bob: also, let's not forget about all those shops in between where you want to go and where you are. They would lose a lot business! I bet they would sta... more »
    Roklimber: I can see it already... people's minds and life experiences being illegally downloaded through bit-torrent-like peer-to-peer networks. And that remin... more »
    Dr Emilio Lizardo: I haven't seen Caprica yet, but didn't Frederick Pohl do the whole downloading your personality thing decades ago in the "Gateway" books? more »
    Evdor: Right, Science moving ahead unguided by morality leading to terrible things. Because that trope hasn't been done to death Thank you, 'cutting edge' m... more »
    Log1c: Man, I wish I could have attended this panel so I could ask them if they could give me a job. Even if it could just be correcting computer jargon... more »
  • #spaceporn

    People In These Galaxies May Have Pointed Their Telescopes At The Big Bang

    The Hubble Space Telescope's newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 took the deepest image of the universe ever in infrared light. The reddest and faintest galaxies date from just 600 million years after the Big Bang. More »
  • #madscience

    Wait, So There's Science In Science Fiction?

    Comic-Con's 2009 panel "Mad Science" gives us a sneak peek at Caprica, a discussion on the symbiotic relationship between scientists and screenwriters, robotic reincarnation — and the inevitability of transporter accidents. More »
  • #fictionalscience

    Science Bloopers (and Successes) from Battlestar Galactica

    At the awesome panel called "The Science Behind Science Fiction," Phil "Bad Astronomer" Plait was joined by Kevin Grazier, a rocket scientist and science adviser for Battlestar Galactica and Eureka. Grazier said that sometimes the actors on the shows are as rabid about getting the science right as he is: James "Baltar" Callas and Joe "Henry Deacon" Morton often do independent research to verify that the science on their respective shows is correct. Apparently Callas was particularly fascinated by whether "black body radiation" was represented accurately. Grazier also confessed to the greatest science blooper of his career — in BSG episode two, called "Water." More »