William Levy's Third Dance!

Dancing with The Stars. LINK

Bubble Hotel

Sleep out under the stars and enjoy all the trappings of luxury at the Bubble Hotel. LINK: Youtube

Tim Hawkins- Old Rock Star Songs

Tim Hawkins sings songs that famous Rock Stars will be singing in their old age. LINK: Youtube

The current United States flag was designed by a high school student

Robert Heft, born in Saginaw, Michigan, was the designer of the 50-star flag.
He designed the current U.S. flag in 1958 when he was 17 years-old for a class project. He unstitched the blue field from a family 48-star flag, sewed in a new field, and used iron-on white fabric to add 100 hand-cut stars, 50 on each side of the blue canton.

He originally received a B- for the project. After discussing the grade with his high school teacher, Stanley Pratt, it was agreed that if the flag was accepted by Congress, the grade would be reconsidered. Heft's flag design was chosen and adopted by presidential proclamation after Alaska and before Hawaii was admitted into the union in 1959. According to Heft, his teacher did keep to their agreement and changed his grade to an A for the project. Go to LINK to see the video.

Death Star Melons

People do some strange things when they have time to kill. Making the Death Star out of a cantaloupe or watermelon is one of the cooler (but still ever so slightly strange) things.

You were told as a child to never play with your food but, to be frank, sometimes when a cool idea suddenly hits, the temptation is just too strong. So, you take a watermelon. You just can’t help noticing that it already kinda looks like the Death Star. It doesn’t look quite right on a plate, though. Time to experiment.

Link, Via: Neatorama

(image credit: Windell Oskay

A Humbling Perspective

Awesome!

Stars and Planets Scale Comparison

Link - Via: news-world, Via: Neatorama

Cosmic Journeys / The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy, where they prey on stars, or swallow planets whole. Our Milky Way may harbor millions of these black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there's evidence of something even more ominous: a breed of black holes that have reached incomprehensible size and destructive power. How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? LINK: Youtube

Ballas Hough - "Move" - Live on Dancing with the Stars

Ballas Hough performing "Move" on Dancing with the Stars. LINK: Youtube

Scientists find trawl of 32 new planets

European astronomers announced they had found 32 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system and said on Monday they believe their find means that 40 percent or more of Sun-like stars have such planets.

The planets range in size from about five times the size of Earth to about five times the size of Jupiter, they said. More have been discovered, too, they said, promising more announcements later this year.

The latest discoveries bring the total of known exoplanets to about 400, said Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland. LINK

Interview With The 9 Year Old Hockey Star

Interview with the hockey star Oliver Wahlstrom!
AND he's only NINE! LINK: Youtube

Fiber optic star field on your ceiling

Over at Instructables, Mike Galloway posted a howto for creating a lovely, twinkling star field ceiling using fiber optics. Inspired by a star field ceiling he saw at a movie theater, Galloway decided to install one in his soon-to-be-born baby's room! "How to create a fiber optic starfield ceiling". LINK, Via: Youtube

Stars Aging

Roll your mouse over the photos to reveal stars aging. LINK