The use of speed bumps is widespread around the world, and they are most commonly found where prevailing vehicle speeds are expected to be low. Although speed bumps are very effective in keeping vehicle speed down, their use is sometimes controversial as they can cause noise and possibly vehicle damage if taken at too great a speed. THIS IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE SPEED BUMP IN THE WORLD picked by urkeee 2 years ago

Astronomers may have found another star to add to the Southern Cross, one of the most familiar constellations in the southern sky. picked by Neiako 3 years ago

They beamed him up -- and on Friday, after a three-week search, they found the rocket that had carried ashes of "Star Trek" actor James Doohan briefly into space.

Follow up on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

One of the fastest moving stars ever seen is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed. The cosmic cannonball, a neutron star known as RX J0822-4300, was discovered with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The neutron star is racing out of our Milky Way Galaxy at about 3 million mph (4.8 million kph). Not the same as this one. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

I have tried many times, eventually succeeded, and published my method. picked by loinsees 3 years ago

Oak Lines IL has taken a new approach to getting People to stop at Stop Signs. By adding red octagons stamped with "... IN THE NAAME OF LOVE!" or "... AND SMELL THE ROSES."

Cute Idea. picked by muppetmaker 2 years ago

Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

For the first time, astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An unusual star may have swallowed its stellar companion and burped out a planet-forming cloud as a result, a new study reports. The star, called BP Piscium, is surrounded by a thick disc of gas and dust from which it appears to be sucking up new material at a prodigious rate. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures. The object, called NGC 2371, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Wikisky is a draggable, zoomable, web-based star map. If you click on a star or other object, it brings upvall the information you could want on it, including recent articles and photos. That and much more. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

A ragged company of stars is rushing through the chaotic core of our galaxy, travelling faster than can easily be explained. The new measurement of its path, made with the 10-metre Keck telescope in Hawaii, US, also deepens a mystery surrounding the Milky Way's central black hole. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Star Wars Vs. Star Trek: The Infamous DMP Edition.... picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

The DPS estimates the marijuana is worth $3.9 million retail and says the seizure is the second largest it’s made during routine traffic enforcement since 1997. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

Input your birthday and find your birthday star! A birthday star is a star whose light left said star about the time you were born. Mine is in the constellation Eridanus. It is called 40 Eridani in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0415-0739 A in the NStars database. It has visual magnitude 4.43 meaning that you could see this star with the ... read full post picked by KingKoopa 2 years ago

Using observations from ESO's VLT, astronomers were able for the first time to reconstruct the site of a flare on a solar-like star located 150 light years away. The study of this young star, nicknamed 'Speedy Mic' because of its fast rotation, will help scientists better understand the youth of our Sun. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The V150 trainset reached 574,8 km/h at kilometre point 191 on the new East European LGV high-speed line, in France, at 13h13, exceeding by 59,5 km/h the previous world rail speed record, set in 1990. picked by studio 3 years ago

The existence of massive stars — up to a whopping 120 times the mass of the sun — has long perplexed astronomers. The big question was how these stellar behemoths reached their enormous sizes without blowing off all the gas that feeds them.

A new computer simulation of star formation has found a surprisingly simple solution to how these stars might get around this problem. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago