May 22 2008

The Secret History of Star Wars

by lgw • !Bielefeld, Space 0

Kleines Trostpflaster für die komplizierte Wohnungssuche (warum habe ICH jetzt eigentlich Albträume von Wohnungsbesichtigungen in schönen, aber unbezahlbaren Wohnungen direkt unter der Landebahn des Osnabrücker Flughafens in der Lotter Straße – jaja – gehabt?):

Michael Kaminski’s The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unauthorized, e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved. Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked.

von /.

Und wo wir gerade im Weltall sind:

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time — until now. While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift telescope, scientists detected an extremely luminous blast of X-rays released by a supernova explosion. They alerted 8 other telescopes to turn their eyes on this first-of-its-kind event.

Ein ganz guter Abriss mit Bildern im Bad Astronomy Blog. Wieder von /.