Quote (JVMorrow @ Nov 28 2012 08:29pm)

I love space
Ill start off

I noticed there was a fullmoon tonight, and then I noticed a planet next to it. Jupiter is out

Quote (piddywiffle @ Nov 29 2012 01:09am)

The corrections made on the Hubble are based off of mammogram technologies.

Therefore, breast care made it possible for us to peer into the unfathomable depths of space.

Quote (bentherdonethat @ Nov 29 2012 06:34am)

I think you read that picture that was on facebook backwards Its flawed mirror caused them to develop algorithms to sharpen blurry digital images, and those algorithms are now used to sharpen blurry digital images in medical technologies (such as mammograms).

NASA is saving boobs for everyone. Thanks, NASA.

Quote (Mastersam93 @ Nov 29 2012 10:37am)

I hate space.  Just a bunch of balls of fire and rocks millions of miles away.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Nov 28 2012 11:27pm)

Ohh shit, thats what it was? Its bright as hell, I saw it too.

Coolest space thing prolly I've ever seen with my eyes was a lunar eclipse. Moon turning red?? SICK

Quote (piddywiffle @ Nov 29 2012 10:30am)

Oh, well I don't facebook so I guess I missed that meme.  I'm actually not sure where I picked that tidbit up.  Only that I approve of NASA's PoV on the situation

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The discovery of a new supermassive black hole by astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) could force physicists to completely rework models of how galaxies evolve. NGC 1277 has a mass of 17 billion suns (for comparison, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has a mass of about 4 million Suns) and contains an absolutely extraordinary 14% of the total mass of the galaxy it is in. The size of NGC 1277 is all the more astonishing because the surrounding galaxy is very small.
This could be the largest supermassive black hole found to date, and is much, much larger than it should be according to current models.