AS was recently saying its ridiculous how much money NASA gets to send people to the moon/Mars/explore the universe. Here is my rebuttal, Via Geekologie:
Astronomers on Wednesday [July 8] said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
The ancient supernova was found after astronomers compared several years of images taken from a portion of the sky, enabling them to look for objects that changed in brightness over time.
The universe is believed to be 13.7 billion years old, so the supernova marks the death of one of earliest stars in creation.
The previous supernova record was an event that happened around six billion years ago.
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