This artist's conception illustrates a storm of comets around a star near our own, called Eta Corvi. Evidence for this barrage comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, whose infrared detectors picked up indications that one or more comets was recently torn to shreds after colliding with a rocky body. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Ping!........
NASA named a device after #9?
The Roughnecks will be dispatched to take out the bugs on their home turf of Klendathu.
I’m jealous! Spitzer (whoever he is*) can see this, but I can’t even see tonight’s meteor shower due to clouds.
That Spitzer character must have one heck of a set of eyeballs.
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*Simon & Garfunkle reference:
“He doesn’t dig poetry.
He’s so unhip that,
When you say Dylan,
he thinks you’re talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was.
The man ain’t got no culture, ...”