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NASA signed a commercial company Bigelow Aerospace production agreement inflatable module, which will become part of the ISS. During its development the company received from space Agency 17.8 million dollars.

Roskosmos has published the state program "Space activities of Russia in the 2013-2020". The office acknowledges that the Russian cosmohotel now ahead of only competitors from Asia, after the USA and European countries. Roscosmos in the program promises for 2.1 trillion rubles to return the country the status of a leading space power and colonize the moon, transfers "New Region".

The white house has denied the petition of Americans with a proposal to build a "death Star". In the document, which was signed by 34 thousand people, citizens of States asked the government "to find resources, assign funding to begin the construction of the "death Star" in 2016".

Next to an end, it seems, is assigned to 2040, when the Earth is supposed to bump asteroid 2011 AG5. However, recently, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii, with the help of telescope "Gemini-North" on the volcano Mauna Kea (Hawaii) has calculated that the probability of such a collision is negligible. Earlier this risk was estimated as 1 in 500.

Research space Agency of the USA has declared, that is quite serious and it is argued quite real plans on the practical use of the satellite of the moon.

In the Universe were three times more stars than was considered before. More recently, red dwarfs - small dim stars - it was impossible to see beyond our Galaxy and its nearest neighbors. It was assumed that the share of red dwarfs in other galaxies approximately the same as in ours.

Space Agency NASA says about the discovery of the largest known spiral galaxies, which was significantly higher than their congeners from the galactic environment. According to the estimates of NASA, the new galaxy is about five times the milky way. To get the full picture managed with the help of telescopes NASA and the European space Agency.

NASA on the meeting of the American astronomical society reported that space telescope 23-year-old Hubble still quite functional.

Astronomers have discovered in the constellation of Leo and the adjacent areas of the sky largest structure in the Universe - a collection of 73 quasars, stretching to 1240 million parsecs, or 4 billion light years, according to a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Scientists believe that in 5 to 10 years each astronaut will be implanted with special nanorobots doctors who will protect him from possible harmful effects of a long stay in space. First, in terms of cosmic radiation, which is the cause of the abnormal growth of the spine and accelerate the development of Alzheimer's disease.

This neutron star with an eerie resemblance to the mask in the phantom was discovered space telescope NASA "Center". Pulsar Led has a diameter of about 12 km and rotates more than 11 times per second, faster than the blades of the helicopter.

Russian Academy of Sciences will hold a major international conference in October 2013, to mark its 50th anniversary, as stated by the Director of the Institute Igor Ushakov.

Six new comets, described by scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, as a "missing link" in planet formation were seen in other star systems. Comets or aksakaly, as they are called, when they find them in other solar systems, and which have remained since the formation of the planets.

In the United States was approved the drug, which is designed to treat patients with lekarstvomoscow form of TB, which is already not doing other recognized methods of therapy, reports Reuters news Agency.

This year, Mars One (the Netherlands) plans to start selection of candidates to the settlers of the red planet. The first crew of astronauts will have to start construction of a colony on Mars.