Those spikes keep dragons from perching on the tower. Simple, but incredibly effective!

We’ve seen this movie, haven’t we?

Note that you can’t see the black hole in this image (an optical HST image). The black hole was identified through microlensing of the object labeled “source”, followed by subsequent astrometric observations. The black hole is the lens, which is not seen in these images because it’s too faint.

You have to ask yourself the question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

Demoted? I bet he’s real worked up about that.

At the same time, they are also incredibly fragile. The wrong words at the wrong time can have an affect on them for a lifetime.

I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay, I sleep all night and I work all day!

The blurb is there now (thanks!), but the attribution is missing.

If you’re going to post APOD, please include the explanation paragraph and attributions.

Is this a different phenomenon than sun pillars? In those cases, I believe the cause is a particular shape of ice crystal, but perhaps in this case the geometry is caused by the fact the scattering substance is only present in that column, rather than scattering in a preferred direction.

Wasn’t Wesley Snipes ultimately defeated by the IRS?

For some definition of “least”.

Here is a summary.

And accepted, it appears.

It’s crazy how jealous the US and the UK are of each other’s system.

Can someone help me identify my old TV…?

It’s the big box on the left-hand side of the photo, with a picture on it.

Pictured: pika chew.

60 to 230 PeV. That’s a spicy neutrino! </mario>

We need living space!

“The dog?! You were named after the dog?!”