Sweet! My uncle is an astronomer for NOAO and worked at the Blanco Telescope in Chile for a while. The things he'd talk about absolutely blew my mind, even if

Sweet! My uncle is an astronomer for NOAO and worked at the Blanco Telescope in Chile for a while. The things he'd talk about absolutely blew my mind, even if they were quite often miles above my head (heeyo). One of my favorite observations of his teams' was when they found galaxies stealing stars from one another. http://www.noao.edu/news/2011/pr1102.php http://www.noao.edu/news/2011/pr1102.php http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/110720-galaxies-stars-stealing-space-science/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/110720-galax... Fun anecdote - his twin brother is also an astronomer. They're quite funny in the same room together, as they're... slightly competitive with their theoretical understandings.