Quadruple galaxy pileup
If galaxies were businesses, the Securities and Exchange Commission would nix a newly observed merger. Astronomers have spied four hefty galaxies in the process of colliding into a single galaxy that may end up being 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way. Located in the galaxy cluster CL0958+4702, nearly five billion light-years away, the discoverers said in a statement that the starry globs mark the first observed collision between two big galaxies. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Giant Lego man washes ashore in Netherlands
Art school prank? Legoland refugee? Family of undersea giants? The world isn't sure how or why a massive eight-foot-tall Lego figure beached itself on a resort beach in Zandvoort, the Netherlands. Let's just hope it comes in peace. View a slide show of the giant toy here. (Gizmodo)

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