NASA Image of the Day: Earthrise

Taken by Apollo 16.

NASA Image of the Day

A Magnetar cracks and spews Gamma Rays.

A Magnetar is not a character in the X-Men. NASA says its a neutron star with a super-duper magnetic field.

Nasa Image of the Day

According to NASA:

Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer
Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars
can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the two hollow cavities.

And according to Sarah Palin, those oldest stars would be about, oh 7,000 years old.

NASA Image of the Day -- Forget Tatooine

This is what it would look like to have four -- yes four! -- suns in the sky. According to Nasa. Of course, this could also be what NASA astronauts see after throwing back a few.