OMG!

A whole new meaning for OMG!

Via my mom, both the photo at right and the story below...

I was eating lunch on the 20th of February with my 7 year-old granddaughter and I asked her, "What day is tomorrow?"

She said, ‘It's President's Day!’ (She is a smart kid.)

I asked, ‘What does President's Day mean?’ I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln ... etc.

She replied, ‘President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment.’

You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose...

The Sun...

In recent years, the quality of the solar images scientists can capture has gone up dramatically.  The one at right shows the edge of a sunspot.  Often these amazing images have been taken from satellites, but the one at right was taken from a ground-based telescope, using several sophisticated adaptive optical systems and some digital post-processing. 

Via APOD, of course...