Great view of a lunar crater

http://www.universetoday.com/92188/lro-lets-you-stand-on-the-rim-of-aristarchus-crater/

New island created overnight

http://www.universetoday.com/92163/as-seen-from-space-volcanic-eruption-creates-new-island-in-the-red-sea/

The world's first 5MB hard drive

Thanks to my wife Karen for this.

‘In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.’

http://www.retronaut.co/2011/12/5mb-hard-disk-drive-1956/

Suspected tornado in Potch

http://saweatherobserver.blogspot.com/search/label/Tornadoes

2 great comet photos

The first photo is of Comet Lovejoy from Canberra, the secondfrom the Space Station.

To put these pictures into perspective, there are more than one trillion comets aligned with our solar system alone, orbiting outside Pluto at a mere 200kph. Eventually they all dissipate.

Awesome waterfall pic: Yosemite, California

Thanks to Karen for drawing this to my attention.


http://t.co/Nr4HxBa2

Two black holes most massive ever found

Artist's rendition of the giant black holes.

(Thanks to David Blood for bringing this to my attention.)

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/05/two-black-holes-most-massive-ever-found-astronomers-say/?on.cnn=1

Black holes: They're the most destructive monsters in the universe. We already knew they can be powerfully massive. Now scientists say they've found the most massive ones yet, as reported in the journal Nature.

How big?

The mass of each is about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. The previous black hole record holder, first measured in 1977, has a mass of about 6 billion suns.

And for each black hole, the "event horizon" – basically areas from which nothing can escape their gravity – is about five times the distance between our sun and Pluto.