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For years, astronomers have known about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, but these pictures from NASA's NuSTAR telescope show a rare view of the usually sleeping giant gobbling down a cosmic snack.

Scientists have located a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.

Don't want to drag your telescope out for a gander at NASA's moon impact mission? Stick to your friend, the Internet, instead tomorrow morning. Slooh, a web-based telescope-viewing site, offers live coverage of NASA's $79 million Lunar Crater Observation and...