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Tomotsugu Goto of the University of Hawaii and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy at the center of a supermassive black hole nests, the most distant so far found. The galaxy, which is so distant as it was 12,800 million years ago, is as big as the Milky Way and contains at its core a supermassive black hole containing as much matter as at least one billion times that of our SunIt is surprising that a galaxy so big already existed when the universe was only about 6 percent of its present age, which will house a black hole with a mass of at least a billion times the Sun and the galaxy black hole hadIn the PCF “SIC RCP continue testing universal missile module VPN-1 launch vehicle” Angara “
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The mainA ground radar is looking for water on the south pole of the Moon
Before the big return to the Moon, studies of the Moon is increasing. The south, with craters whose bottom is plunged into darkness since the time immemorial, just be a mapping from the Earth by radar. There are nearly 40 years, man set foot on the moon to abandon its exploration a few years later. [...]
A planetary system formation observed Live!
The telescope space Spitzer may have surprised a transitional stage, brief and therefore difficult to observe in a protoplanetary disk. This would be the influence of a planet formation disk of dust surrounding a star in one of the earliest stages of formation of a planetary system. Spitzer is now in full “hot phase” of [...]
Going to Alpha Centauri
Charles Q. Choi discusses how to get to Alpha Centauri. With new findings suggesting it may harbor rocky worlds, this could be a exciting trip.
Moon Trucks
Wired has some photos on a concept for a Moon Truck for astronauts once NASA establishes a base on the south pole.
Report from the Exploration Conference
Rob Coppinger is blogging from the Exploration Conference in Denver.
* NASA 3rd Space Exploration Conference blog - Hyperbola
* NASA 3rd Space Exploration Conference blog: Day 2 - Hyperbola
National Space Society Space Settlement Art Contest Winners Announced
The National Space Society’s art contest has announced its winning entries to illustrate the NSS 2009 Space Settlement Calendar. You can find view all entries to this contest online at http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/gallery.htm.
Should We Weaponize Space
David R. Butcher discusses the recently space weapon activity since China’s destruction of a weather satellite with an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) in January.
I think weapons in space are a forgone conclusion. I don’t see that as a bad thing, however. If we are ever to expand humanity to places other than Earth, we have to [...]
Sovereignty Part 2
The last post on what sovereignty means to an extraterrestrial colony prompted some comments and some references to the history of sovereignty. If you are interested, check out a discussion on sovereignty.
As I have had more time to think on it, perhaps this is a more general question. Certainly it is [...]
