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Rocket racing is fast becoming a reality.  It may not bey as hi-tech as Star Wars pod-racing is but it’s definitely more high flying.

Rocket mavens, mark your calendars: The date of the first Rocket Racing League race has been set. On Aug. 1-2, the league will stage a high-flying version of NASCAR with rockets at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisc., in its first-ever exhibition race. Two racers will fly planes powered by rocket engines on an airborne raceway.  read more

Pilots will be flying their rocket powered planes in an invisible track in the air.  The pilots will be able to see the track through a helmet that displays a real-time 3D image of the course.  The audience on the other hand will be able to watch and follow the action through 50-foot tall projector screens.

This is definitely going to be the next popular sport for all the speed junkies in the world.

Oh by the way, I wonder if pilots from Tatooine will be allowed to join.

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What was the slimmest moon you’ve ever seen? Perhaps, you’re used to the crescent moon often depicted in photos and movies but have you ever seen a crescent moon so slim that you had a hard time looking for it? At first, he couldn’t see it, but searching with binoculars along a cloudy western horizon near sunset, photographer Laurent Laveder finally spotted a delicate lunar crescent. Captured in this dramatic picture on April 6th from Bretagne, France, the Moon was only 15 hours and 38 minutes old.

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Binary stars are common in our universe. In fact, binary stars are so common that astronomers find it odd that our sun doesn’t have a twin. Common as they are, astronomers were surprised to find two stars orbiting each other so close that they share material with each other causing them to meld and form a peanut looking shape..

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