russbengtson:

Happy birthday to Ralph Steadman, whose illustrations perfectly embodied Hunter S. Thompson’s style, and who somehow survived their partnership.

usagov:

Image description: NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed an object that looks like a giant tornado in space. The structure actually results from shock waves where a powerful protostellar jet hits neighboring gas and dust.

Find more images from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Photo by NASA / JPL-Caltech / J. Bally (University of Colorado)