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  NASA'S Space Launch System Core Stage Passes Major Milestone, Ready to Start Construction

  December 28, 2012 — The team designing America's new flagship rocket has completed successfully a major technical review of the vehicle's core stage. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will take the agency's Orion ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Hubble Eyes the Needle Galaxy: IC 2233, One of the Flattest Galaxies Known

  December 28, 2012 — Like finding a silver needle in the haystack of space, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy IC 2233, one of the flattest galaxies ... > full story
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  PhoneSat: Smart, Small and Sassy

  December 28, 2012 — The fast-paced proliferation and popularity of mobile devices here on Earth, like smartphones loaded with powerful operating systems, will find a new niche market- this time in space, thanks to ... > full story
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  Measurements Hint Why the Universe Is Dominated by Matter, Not Anti-Matter

  December 26, 2012 — Physicists have made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, ... > full story
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  NASA Puts Orion Backup Parachutes to the Test

  December 20, 2012 — NASA completed the latest in a series of parachute tests for its Orion spacecraft Thursday at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona, marking another step toward a first flight ... > full story
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  Canadian Experiment to Track Space Radiation and Its Risks

  December 20, 2012 — Space can be a potentially hazardous environment to live and work in, especially when it comes to radiation. Originating from violent storms on the Sun and galactic cosmic rays produced in distant ... > full story
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  Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds

  December 20, 2012 — A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Saturn Mission: Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks

  December 20, 2012 — For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon composition of the surface of Saturn's ... > full story
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  Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected

  December 20, 2012 — A new study indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously ... > full story
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  Meteorite Triggered Scientific 'Gold Rush'

  December 20, 2012 — A meteorite that exploded as a fireball over California's Sierra foothills this past spring was among the fastest, rarest meteorites known to have hit the Earth, and it traveled a highly eccentric ... > full story

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