WHAT IS A MILKYWAY?

A faint band of light crossing the sky, made up of vast numbers of faint stars. It corresponds to the plane of our Galaxy, in which most of its stars are located

Source: Google Dictionary

See Video (from 5min - great tweaks in its video features, play with it)

What is the Milky Way?

Aliens Exist

"We are being visited," he said. "It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence. I call upon our government to open up ... and become a part of this planetary community that is now trying to take our proper role as a spacefaring civilisation."

Mitchell, who has a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it's only a matter of time before we need to evacuate Earth and seek a new home. "The sun will burn out in due course, and we have to be off this planet if our species is to survive. At this point in human history on this planet, we're now starting, and should be, to reach out beyond our planet and then beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there."

Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk

The russians are back in the space race says Gizmodo.com

Source: http://gizmodo.com/#!5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

Commenting on the two pictures of Earth and moon.

Moon:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2011/03/earth_moon_rotated_01.jpg


Earth:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2011/03/earth_disk1_1.jpg


"Elektro-L is a Russian Satellite similar to GOES (the satellites that provide the cloud image loops shown on the news every night). The images posted by Gizmodo are a combination of visible and near-infrared wavelengths, so they show the Earth in a way not visible to human eyes (vegetation looks red, for example). They're not any better or worse than NASA images, but they show different things."

IAmAn Astronaut who has been to space twice and will be commanding the I.S.S. on Expedition 35. AMA. - http://www.reddit.com/user/DoctorNose

http://www.reddit.com/comments/gm8rh/iaman_astronaut_who_has_been_to_space_twice_and/

http://www.reddit.com/user/DoctorNose

Sorry to point you to wikipedia, but it does have a good explanation of space vomit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_adaptation_syndrome
Edit: He was better the second time, but the two flights were half a decade apart.

Peeking into Space Peeking into Universe

The Universe: Secrets of the Sun - 44:07

About the The Universe; Secrets of Sun:
This series takes a fascinating new look at a very old universe. Fifty years after man first ventured into outer space, we examine the greatest secrets of the heavens. Each episode outlines how humans have explored the universe, and scrutinises the discoveries they have made.

We look at hi-tech space telescopes which record the violent birth of stars, robotic rovers which glimpse the red surface of Mars, and sophisticated NASA probes which delve into the mysterious make-up of comets. As the earth churns ominously with the effects of global warming, this is a revealing and prescient journey into the heavens. From the planets to the stars and out to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in this epic exploration of the Universe and its mysteries. In ‘Secrets of the Sun’, we explore the myriad mysteries which lie beneath the fiery surface of the sun. Our sun is a fireball in the sky - a bubbling, boiling, kinetic sphere of white hot plasma, exploding and erupting. Its size is almost unimaginable: one million Earths would fit within its boundaries. In this violence is born almost all the energy that makes existence on Earth possible. Yet its full mysteries are only now beginning to be understood. From sun spots to solar eclipses, solar flares to solar storms, the birth of the sun to its potential death, discover the science and history behind this celestial object that makes life on Earth possible

[ youtube.com ] [ New Earthlike planet discovered Gliese 581c ] [ For the first time in history, an Earth-like planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star. At only one and a half times the radius of Earth, Gliese 581 C is the third and smallest planet to be discovered orbiting a Red Dwarf star located 20.5 light years away in the constellation Libra and the first one to approach the Earth's size. The planet resides in the star's "Goldilocks Zone" where liquid water --and life could occur. The team of Swiss, French and Portuguese astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's 3.6 m telescope to make this incredible discovery. ]