US TV season premiere dates

Nicked from AICN, just those imminent US TV premiere dates which actually interest me:

The 4400 (USA) June 5
The first season wasn't spectacular, but certainly intriguing enough to catch season 2.

The Inside (Fox) June 8
The new Tim Minear thing. Say no more.

The Dead Zone (USA) June 12
One of the most consistently likeable and under-rated shows on TV.

Battlestar Galactica (SciFi) July 15
The best SF TV show around at the moment.

Stargate SG-1 (SciFi) July 15
Okay, it's getting lazier and sillier, but it's entertaining. Plus this season has cast-members from every other SF TV show, ever. Really.

Stargate: Atlantis (SciFi) July 15
This bored me at first, but for some reason I stuck with it and it really found its feet. More reminiscent of early SG-1 than SG-1 is, these days.

And yes, the two Stargate shows and Battlestar Galactica really are premiering on the same channel on the same night.

Awe inspiring

This is very cool and very beautiful.



It's a series of time lapse images from the Hubble Space Telescope showing a "light echo" expanding through an otherwise invisible dust cloud. It's the kind of thing you only expect to see in the movies, but these are real images. The universe seems very static sometimes, moving on geological timescales, but this is very different.

There's a much bigger image or even better, a time lapse movie (2.14 MB Quicktime) plus others.

I first saw this a while ago, and it stayed with me. Simply awe inspiring.