International Space Station in orbit
It might be little actual use to science (so they say), but the (pretty much) completed International Space Station does make for a breathtaking sight.
The space shuttle Discovery has just delivered the final solar panel array, and the crew took this shot while they made their way back to the Earth's surface.
As previously mentioned on the blog, this latest addition to the ISS means it is now the second brightest object in the night sky, second to the moon.
For more amazing photos of the Discovery mission, visit Universe Today.
Weird Science Factoid: Dragonflies can fly forward, sideward and backward and they are one of the fastest flying insects with an average of 50 to 60 mph. The porsche of the insect world.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
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