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  Saturn Is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests; Moons and Rings Date Back to Solar System's Birth

  March 27, 2013 — A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth. Though they are tinted on ... > full story
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  New Evidence Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm on Earth

  March 27, 2013 — A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every ... > full story
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  Sun Block for the 'Big Dog': Astronomers Detect Titanium Oxide and Titanium Dioxide Around the Giant Star VY Canis Majoris

  March 27, 2013 — Astronomers have successfully identified two titanium oxides in the extended atmosphere around a giant star. The object VY Canis Major is one of the largest stars in the known universe and close to ... > full story
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  NASA Turns Up the Heat on Construction of the Space Launch System

  March 27, 2013 — Welding engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have had an extremely busy winter assembling adapters that will connect the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket for the ... > full story
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  NASA Provides a Super-Speed Look at Webb Telescope Progress

  March 27, 2013 — NASA released a new sped-up, 32-second video that shows engineers working on some of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight components to integrate them together to ensure they will work perfectly ... > full story
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  Young, Hot and Blue: Stars in the Cluster NGC 2547

  March 27, 2013 — The Universe is an old neighborhood -- roughly 13.8 billion years old. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is also ancient -- some of its stars are more than 13 billion years old (eso0425). Nevertheless, ... > full story
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  How to Build a Very Large Star

  March 27, 2013 — Stars ten times as massive as the Sun, or more, should not exist: as they grow, they tend to push away the gas they feed on, starving their own growth. Scientists have been struggling to figure out ... > full story
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  Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

  March 26, 2013 — When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrument built and tested by a team at NASA's ... > full story
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  SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready for Return to Earth

  March 26, 2013 — More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for ... > full story
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  Astronomers Discover New Kind of Supernova

  March 26, 2013 — Supernovae were always thought to occur in two main varieties. But a team of astronomers is reporting the discovery of a new type of supernova called Type Iax. Previously, supernovae were divided ... > full story

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