30 Dor 016 is a star 90 times the size of our sun, ejected from its home, moving through space at a speed of 402,336km/h. Anyone lose the plot to an epic science-fiction video game?
This is no video game. This is an image of a gigantic baby star inside a galactic bubble 4300 light years from Earth, captured by Europe’s Herschel space telescope. Has video game space ever been so beautiful?
Richard Garriott, the first video game designer to ride a rocket to outer space wanted to play a massively multiplayer video game from the International Space Station. And he wanted to bring his iPod. Neither happened.