Bad Astronomy has your top ten astronomy pictures 2008.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Your Astronomy Picture of the Day is this big map of the Milky Way.

* Ten years after Deep Blue, what does it all mean? Daniel Dennett reports.

* In a hundred years, redheads will finally be a thing of the past. "If the gingers really want to save themselves they should move to Scotland." I learned it from science.

* There's a hole in the universe, and it's freaking everybody out.