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shadows of small Saturn ring moon

Destination Phobos: humanity's next giant leap - space - 27 January 2010 - New Scientist

The Moon is so yesterday...plus there will be delays. Aeres I will probably be scrapped and we will rely on the Russians and the Japanese to get us into orbit for a while. However, Phobos, a moon of Mars beckons! Be sure to see OMSI Space! if you make it to Portland, OR

Destination Phobos: humanity's next giant leap - space - 27 January 2010 - New Scientist

Exolanguage: do you speak alien? - space - 20 January 2010 - New Scientist

"Exolanguage: do you speak alien? - space - 20 January 2010 - New Scientist: "THE cosmos is quiet. Eerily quiet. After decades of straining our radio ears for a whisper of civilisations beyond Earth, we have heard nothing. No reassuring message of universal peace. No helpful recipe for building faster-than-light spacecraft or for averting global catastrophes. Not even a stray interstellar advertisement.

Perhaps there's nobody out there after all. Or perhaps it's just early days in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), and we're listening to the wrong star systems or at the wrong wavelengths."

From the New Scientist

Supermassive black holes – the fathers of galaxies - space - 06 January 2010 - New Scientist

Supermassive black holes – the fathers of galaxies - space - 06 January 2010 - New Scientist: "ONCE upon a time, a vast cloud of cold gas was floating in the void of space, a patch of inert blackness against the even deeper blackness behind. Then, as if from nowhere, a thin jet of matter streaked towards it at ultra-high speed. It slammed into the cloud, compressing its matter and triggering a firestorm of star formation. What had once been a dormant gas cloud was now a full-blown galaxy.

Is this how a galaxy is born? David Elbaz's team of astrophysicists is convinced of it"