Cosmic!

By the way, since people have occasionally seemed interested when I've passed stuff like this on in the past, here's a new National Radio Astronomy press release demonstrating that we actually are doing some fairly cool science here. An excerpt:

Location, location, and location. The old real-estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar. Their accurate distance measurement then resolved a dispute over the pulsar's birthplace, allowed the astronomers to determine the size of its neutron star and possibly solve a mystery about cosmic rays.