Space caturday

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Feb 4, 2012 6:00 PMNov 20, 2019 4:48 AM

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This is cute and all, but I was debating whether to run it on the blog or not when I got to the 1:05 mark or so, and decided to go ahead. Why? Watch:

[embed width="610"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P-yAkBbIV0[/embed]

Did you get the joke?

It's a Chandra X-ray Observatory image in the background if that helps. Note the cat. Also, the next shot shown of a cat batting at Io was also pretty funny. They did miss a sure bet, though: Cat's Eye

, and the Cat's Paw nebula

. Neither of which, I'll note, is in Leo.

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