Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have recently discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy. This feature looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy's center. Each lobe is 25,000 light-years tall and the whole structure may be only a few million years old.
"No time to look at the moon every night? Now you can just watch a time-lapse that shows a changing view of the moon over the course of 2011 (see video above). Created by a team at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Scientific Visualisation Studio, it's the first time a computer simulation has reproduced the shadows on the moon in such high resolution. " http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/06/time-lapse-tuesday-a-year-in-the-life-of-the-moon.html