After 128 days, The Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran, and its six crew, has successfully sailed from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. It was a journey of about 8000 nautical miles. The boat make almost entirely of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles, was a journey with a message, to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic waste to our environment and to think of creative uses for trash. The journey faced giant ocean waves, 70 mph winds, sizzling hot temperatures and torn sails. Adventure Ecology, the organization responsible for the Plastiki Adventure, wants you to rethink trash accumulating in your recycling bin and hopes you might think of these items as treasures to be used in some imaginative way...like a plastic sailing vessel!

A whopper of a star has been found in our universe. Twice as heavy of any star ever found, astronomers say it may be about 265-320 times bigger than our Sun. The bright ball of burning gas gives of more than 10 million times more light than our sun. The "monster star"called R136a1 amazed British astronomers who discovered it because scientists didn't think a star could be so large. It is located in a star cluster of the Tarantula Nebula, part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 165,000 light-years away from the Milky Way.Read more: