Friday, April 5, 2013

Astronomical News

If we're planning on colonizing other worlds, perhaps terraforming -- recreating Earth's conditions on another world -- may be a good way to go about it.
A NASA satellite has imaged the Mars rover's parachute over five months to reveal it being blown around by the thin Martian air. 
A $2 billion particle detector attached to the International Space Station has detected the potential signature of dark matter annihilation in the Cosmos.
It's time to throw on your T-shirts and point your 'scope at these astronomical beauties!
Astronomers have watched the sudden brightening of a galaxy and realized it can mean only one thing: a supermassive black hole has "woken up" and feasted after a long period of hibernation. 

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