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POPSFar Out: NASA's Golden Gift to the Aliens For better or worse, we don't really do things like this anymore. New Horizons, the last spacecraft NASA launched that will eventually pass beyond the edge of the solar system, carries the ashes of the man who discovered Pluto, along with a piece of another spacecraft, an American flag and, for some reason (probably because people paid for the privilege), the names of more than 430,000 people stored on a CD. Apparently we've replaced attempts at interstellar communication with marketing stunts that will seem far kitschier in 30 years than Sagan's Golden Record does today. —Kevin Friedl
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POPSNASA launches probe to study edge of solar system "The interstellar boundary regions are critical because they shield us from the vast majority of dangerous galactic cosmic rays, which otherwise would penetrate into Earth's orbit and make human spaceflight much more dangerous," David McComas, IBEX principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, said recently.
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POPSSolar system a bit squashed, not nicely round "Imagine a balloon is being blown up by the solar wind. You might imagine that if you took a balloon, which is mainly spherical, and pushed it against the wall, it would be blunted on one side," said Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology, one of the scientists involved in the research.
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POPSDaft Punk - Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem 
This is the full 65 minute video of Daft Punk's Interstella. Not only the music is amazing, but the same can be said of the animations by Leiji Matsumoto. Put them together and you end up with this: a masterpiece. From the source: Interstella 5555 is a feature-length Japanese animated musical film originally released on December 1, 2003. The film is the visual realization of Discovery, an album by Daft Punk. Each track from the album has been animated as an episode in the story of the abduction and rescue of an interstellar pop band. The film was produced by the creators of the Discovery album, along with Toei Animation, under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto. The film has no dialogue and minimal sound effects. Music list 1 "One More Time" 2 "Aerodynamic" 3 "Digital Love" 4 "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" 5 "Crescendolls" 6 "Nightvision" 7 "Superheroes" 8 "High Life" 9 "Something About Us" 10 "Voyager" 11 "Veridis Quo" 12 "Short Circuit" 13 "Face To Face"
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POPSNew Comet http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/18/a-newly-discovered-comet-brings-tidings-from-the-oort-cloud/
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