M51 & Gizmo: Half-Baked Plan

IRrelevant Astronomy by NASA / SSC-IPAC

Jan 23, 2009Science & Medicine

Hoping for his birthday to come around sooner, innocent alien M51 moves the Earth into a closer, faster orbit around the sun, and learns an important lesson about life in the Universe.

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