Maybe you can find a use for some of these things in your games... Kinda interesting...
(from the universetoday.com daily emails)
Are we seeing STV's "god" here?
BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTRE OF OUR GALAXY
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/200...ong/index.html
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Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers have created one of the most vivid images of Sagittarius A, an area at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy thought to contain a supermassive black hole. The exposure was made over a period of two weeks, and during that time, the region flared up several times; presumably when additional material reached the black hole's event horizon.
DISTANT AND FAST MOVING OBJECT DISCOVERED
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2003/3.cfm
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A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena presented images today of a rare Hyper Extremely Red Object (Hero). This dim object, located near a galaxy 10 billion light years away is traveling away from us at almost the speed of light. In fact, it's so far, and moving so fast, it has gone way past being red-shifted - it's only visible in infrared light.
RING OF STARS FOUND AROUND OUR MILKY WAY
http://www.rpi.edu/web/News/press_re.../milkyway.html
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Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a giant ring of stars circling the Milky Way. They believe this ring could contain as many as 500 million stars, and was formed when our galaxy collided with a smaller, dwarf galaxy several billion years ago. Other galaxies have been seen with a halo of stars, including Andromeda.
HUBBLE USES GALACTIC LENSE TO LOOK FURTHER
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/2003/01/text
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The Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural 2-million-light-year wide "zoom lens" to look further into space than it normally could. By peering directly through the centre of one of the most massive galactic clusters known, it was able to take advantage of a technique called gravitational lensing to see objects beyond the cluster. Detailed analysis of the image may help shed some light on the mystery of dark matter
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