Presumably tipped off that my grandma always sends my Christmas money early, LEGO has just announced its largest and most expensive set to date: the Star Wars Death Star. The set contains 9,023 pieces (including 33 minifigs), and measures 32″ wide, 28″ tall, and 11″ deep. It will release October

This is a video featuring the late great astronomer Carl Sagan reading the popular excerpt from his 1994 book ‘Pale Blue Dot’, set to the classical music piece ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ by Arvo Pärt for extra poignancy. The original photo, which features earth as seen from a distance of some

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in service, this is a video detailing a 2.5-billion pixel composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy, stitched together from 600 individual photos take by the telescope over ten years. Absolutely stunning (like you, or if you’re a dude: total stud). The Andromeda

Rarely captured on camera (and even more rarely heard — this is possibly the first), this is a home security camera clip of a meteorite crashing into a home’s stone walkway on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Is the sound as cool as I’d hoped it would be? EVEN COOLER.

This is 9-minute timelapse of LEGO builder Solid Brix Studios constructing a 15-foot, 250,000-piece diorama of the Battle of Geonosis from Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. The actual build took over 2 years to complete. Damn! If I could choose between 9 minutes or 2 years to

This is a 3D visualization created by Global Data featuring the scale of various objects in the universe, beginning with subatomic particles, then covering animals and manmade objects and landmarks we’re all familiar with here on earth before traveling into space, ending with the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. The Great

This is a video edited by game developer John C. Worsley, who used a bunch of clips from Star Trek: The Original Series to have the characters perform John Lennon’s ‘Happy XMas (War Is Over)’. And while the Vietnam War is over, war as a whole most certainly isn’t. And,

This is an 8-hour Youtube video just released by NASA in the form of a traditional yule log video, except it’s an untraditional rocket engine instead. I’m already warming my hands against my computer screen! Just what you need for the holidays… the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket