Like a celestial arrow spanning roughly one-third of the northern sky, this artist's concept of a newly discovered stream of ancient stars passes just over the head of the constellation Leo (on the right), before plunging through the heart of the Great Bear, or Big Dipper constellation (to the left). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
Darn Vogons. They'll be coming here next.
Pretty wild. Every time we start to think that we're really getting to know something about the universe, we find out that our knowledge is just a drop in the bucket (or more like an atom).