Food Memes

When your holiday eating habits perfectly mirror Saturn's orbital perspective! The top image shows Saturn with its magnificent rings visible from the side - your pre-holiday waistline looking all majestic and defined. But by December 25th? We're looking at Saturn from above where the rings appear as a thin line across the middle - exactly what happens when your belt becomes a theoretical concept after consuming your body weight in cookies and eggnog. The universe really does provide the perfect metaphors for our expanding holiday circumferences. Even gas giants have better excuses for their size than "I was just taste-testing the gravy."

Finally, someone found a practical use for the universe's oldest radiation! The Cosmic Microwave Background—that 13.8-billion-year-old leftover radiation from the Big Bang that astronomers obsess over—is apparently just waiting to heat up your leftover pizza. Who knew the primordial soup of the universe would end up reheating actual soup? Next breakthrough: using dark matter to make espresso that's actually dark. Physicists have spent decades mapping this ancient radiation pattern, and here it is, getting the Hot Pocket treatment. The universe began with a bang and ends with a "ding!"