By now it is common knowledge that when it comes to massive, taxpayer-backed hedge funds, few are quite as big as the Swiss National Bank, whose roughly $100 billion in equity holdings have been extensively profiled on these pages, including its woefully investments in Valeant and the spike in its buying of AAPL stock at its all time high.

Astronomers have finally captured something amazing, according to GeoBeats News. Recently, a group captured a dying star’s shockwave using optical wavelength: Astronomers have performed a great number of studies on collapsing stars, but capturing a photo of one at the moment it explodes has proven elusive. That changed recently, as an international team of astronomers searching through a wealth of data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope found what they have long been seeking.

Many states in the US are debating whether to classify marijuana as an effective way to combat post traumatic-stress disorder. However, according to a new report from The Southern for many United States veterans of war, there is no debate needed: They’re increasingly using cannabis even though it remains illegal in most states and is unapproved by the Department of Veterans Affairs because major studies have yet to show it is effective against PTSD.

A man who spent most of the last thirty years full of guilt for not stopping the ill-fated explosion that brought the NASA Challenger space shuttle to a fiery end has died. Bob Ebeling, however, found some relief from his guilt just weeks prior to his death according to NBC WILX: Ebeling’s daughter Leslie Serna says her father died Monday at the age of 89 in Brigham City, Utah. She says her father was finally able to forgive himself. NPR reports Ebeling had been a booster rocket engineer at a NASA contractor during the 1986 launch.

As the chaos surrounding the coordinated suicide attacks on Belgium unfolded on Tuesday morning, we reported that energy utility Electrabel was evacuating two nuclear power plants, Doel, made up of four reactors, and Tihange, comprised of three.

Electrabel would later dispute that account, drawing a distinction between a full evacuation and the utility’s generous offer to non-essential employees: “...people who are not strictly necessary on site can leave.”