WHAT UP, HOLMES?: Remember last year when Comet Holmes burst onto the naked-eye scene, prompting amateur astronomers to shout, cry and perform end-zone touchdown celebrations? Ok, perhaps a bit of an exaggeration...

SON OF AN ASTRONAUT: Some of the best doctors in the world told him he couldn't be an astronaut like dear old dad. Bad eyes, they said. Young Garriott decided he'd have to make his own way. And so he did...

SATURN'S CYCLONIC CYCLOPS REVEALS A SEETHING HEART: Cassini's infrared vision penetrated Saturn's methane haze to reveal a speckled pattern of clouds located nearly 80 miles deep in the atmosphere. They look like dark storms only because they are silhouette against Saturn's interior that glows in infrared light...

"WE ALL BELIEVE IN RELATIVITY...": Sung to the tune of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine," he adapted the lyrics to help students in his relativity class prepare for the final exam. It's quite possibly the only song to date containing seven different equations...

CELEBRATING A HOMETOWN COMET: This was the first comet discovered in Canada since 2001 — and it promises to be bright enough by next spring to see in binoculars...

DESIGNING NASA'S NEW MOON CRIB: I never expected to find myself working on a project with NASA... Now, as an industrial design student heading into a second year of grad school at the Rhode Island School of Design, NASA is exactly who I'm working with...