Spacey bits

Bad Astronomy have a nice pic of a solar eclipse from space courtesy of the SDO

With doubts being raised about Gliese 581g exobiologists should be revitalised by the results of experiments replicating conditions on Titan that seem to indicate DNA could form there without the presence of water. Space.com & DailyGalaxy

Some nerds from the Paris Observatory have identified the oldest, most distant galaxy yet - born a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Weird ring on the surface of the sun spooks kooks and millenarians. Ta DerrenBrown

Boffins have found a mysterious hot spot on exoplanet Upsilon Andromedae b. Catchy name.