There's some cool space news lately. NASA unveiled the idea for the next space telescope -- it's gonna be HUGE, and instead of hanging in low-earth orbit they're gonna throw it way out at Lagrange Point 2. Just having something stationed a million miles out in space is way cool from a sci-fi fan's point of view.
In more worrying news, scientists have been analyzing the most powerful supernova ever seen -- a star so big that when it started imploding the colliding gamma rays started making anti-matter and it made a super-duper whopping huge explosion. Fortunately this is all 240 million light-years away (in a galaxy far, far, away) -- but supposedly Eta Carinae might be big enough to do this too and happens to be in our own galaxy only 7,500 light-years away. That's a little too close for comfort, should we be building a giant bomb shelter or something?
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