Saw this article about the star VY Canis Majoris and how it's being examined by a new European space telescope. What was particularly cool about it was that we'd only recently seen an episode of Cosmos where Carl Sagan explained the life cycle of stars, particularly the same exact death throes of a red giant that they're currently observing from VY Canis Majoris.

And speaking of Carl Sagan, here's a fabu Cosmos/Matrix mashup that Sarah found recently