This is a series of time-lapse videos created by stitching together 14-years of high-res Hubble Space Telescope images to show the movement of stellar jets from young stars over that period. What’s a stellar jet? I’m partial to the SR-71 Blackbird! Fine, FINE — some actual astronomy: Herbig-Haro objects (HH) are small patches of nebulosity associated with newly born stars, and are formed when gas ejected by young stars collides with clouds of gas and dust nearby at speeds of several hundred kilometres per second. HH objects are transient phenomena, lasting not more than a few thousand years. They can evolve visibly over quite short timescales as they move rapidly away from their parent star into the gas clouds in interstellar space (the interstellar medium or ISM). Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal complex evolution of HH objects over a few years, as parts of them fade while others brighten as they collide with clumpy material in the interstellar medium. BOOYA — you can officially add ‘astronomer’ to the list of things you lie about being to impress girls at the bar. But you know what the best one is? NOT saying you’re the Geekologie Writer, I can tell you that right now. You’d be better off saying unemployed. Hit the jump for a bunch of short videos.

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Damn Outerspace, You Brootiful: Time-Lapse Hubble Telescope Videos Of Stellar Jets

This is a shot of a Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet returning from a trip through space and time . Sure you could argue those are just vapor trails, but you’d sound like an idiot and nobody will ever take you seriously again. Not that we do now anyways. Just sayin’, remember the time you tried to argue there’s an internet post office for sorting email? Okay so you were right about that one. Hit the jump for a second shot taken shortly after. Like, super-shortly after. I’m talking fractions of a second.

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Vapor Trails My Ass, That’s A Time Machine!

Dogfight as in airplane battle, not dogfight as in I’m a peenerless d-bag who likes watching pitbulls bite each other. Which, fun fact: if I’m ever diagnosed with terminal cancer I’m coming for you. Me making you chew on a gun aside, this is an awesome jet-fighter scene created by Flickr user -Mainman- , who — need a wingman? For anyone who’s interested, the cockpit is somewhere around 1/2 scale (maybe a little smaller) and the F-15E and MiG-29 are 1/100 scale The flares are a couple of Exoforce fiber optic tubes with Lego light bricks on the far end. They worked out better than I expected - I love the lens flare I got with them. Incidentally, with the exception of the HUD display photoshopped in, there’s not a single non-Lego object in this photo Freaking awesome. Reminds me of when my brother and I would set barstools on their sides and sit in them while pretending we were fighter-jet pilots. No, no it doesn’t. Because that was actually a train. Now shovel some more coal in the wastebasket and let’s CHOO CHOO our way to a house fire! -Mainman-’s Flickr Gallery via Enemy in sight [brothers-brick] Thanks to The Bucktooth Ninja, who — Jesus man I could see you coming a mile away with those things. Get some tooth blackout or something.

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Bogey At 2 O’Clock!: Awesome LEGO Dogfight

This is a video of an F-18 Hornet buzzing some guy’s head so close you can taste the jet fuel . Now I’m not saying this thing would kill you if it hit you, but it would certainly mess your hair up. Also, not to brag or nothin’, but one time I let a jet land ON MY FACE. Now who’s the man?! F-18 Hornet Ultra Low High Speed Fly By [todaysbigthing] Thanks to Matt, who once flew a prop-plane through a barn and accidentally hit a chicken.

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Balls Of Steel: F-18 Hornet Buzzes Man’s Head