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Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula Ever

ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, ...  > full story

Mars Express Radar Yields Strong Evidence of Ocean That Once Covered Part of Red Planet

ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments ...  > full story

Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky ...  > full story

Surface of Mars an Unlikely Place for Life After 600-Million-Year Drought, Say Scientists

Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, ...  > full story

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  Millisecond Pulsar Paradox: Stellar Astrophysics Helps Explain Behavior of Fast Rotating Neutron Stars in Binary Systems

  February 2, 2012 — Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometers, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  New Super-Earth Detected Within the Habitable Zone of a Nearby Cool Star

  February 2, 2012 — Sientists have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. The star is a member of a triple star system and has a different makeup than our Sun, being relatively lacking in ... > full story
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  Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy

  February 2, 2012 — Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble's view of the distant ... > full story
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  Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?

  February 2, 2012 — The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. ... > full story
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  NASA Mission Returns First Video from Moon's Far Side

  February 1, 2012 — A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge ... > full story
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  Sun Delivered Curveball of Powerful Radiation at Earth

  February 1, 2012 — A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Scientists Help Define Structure of Exoplanets

  February 1, 2012 — Using models similar to those used in weapons research, scientists may soon know more about exoplanets, those objects beyond the realm of our solar system. Astronomers have come up with new methods ... > full story
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  Stellar Nursery: A Pocket of Star Formation

  February 1, 2012 — A new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The intense ultraviolet radiation ... > full story
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  IBEX Spacecraft Measures 'Alien' Particles from Outside Solar System

  January 31, 2012 — Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft, an international team of researchers has measured neutral "alien" particles entering our solar system from interstellar space. A ... > full story

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  • Glimpses of the Interstellar Material Beyond Our Solar System
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  'Cool' Gas May Form and Strengthen Sunspots

  January 31, 2012 — Hydrogen molecules may act as a kind of energy sink that strengthens the magnetic grip that causes sunspots, according to scientists using a new infrared instrument on an old ... > full story

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