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  MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet’s Past

  July 18, 2013 — When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in ... > full story
• Stars
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  Hubble Shows Link Between Stars' Ages and Their Orbits in Dense Cluster

  July 18, 2013 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations of stars in an ancient globular star cluster, offering proof they formed at different ... > full story
• Saturn
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  NASA Interplanetary Probes to Take Pictures of Earth

  July 18, 2013 — Two NASA spacecraft, one studying the Saturn system, the other observing Mercury, are maneuvering into place to take pictures of Earth on July 19 and ... > full story
• Astrophysics
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  Slow Bow Shock Ahead of the Sun's Heliosphere Predicted

  July 18, 2013 — A new study indicates that a bow shock (a dynamic boundary between sun’s heliosphere and the interstellar medium) is highly likely. These findings challenge recent predictions that no such bow ... > full story
• Graphene
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  Milestone in Quest to Advance Emerging Super-Black Nanotechnology

  July 17, 2013 — A NASA engineer has achieved yet another milestone in his quest to advance an emerging super-black nanotechnology that promises to make spacecraft instruments more sensitive without enlarging their ... > full story
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  Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch

  July 17, 2013 — An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the long-lived rover on its trek to a new destination on ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  In the Zone: How Scientists Search for Habitable Planets

  July 17, 2013 — There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do other planets beyond our ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Ripped Apart by a Black Hole: Gas Cloud Makes Closest Approach to Monster at Center of Milky Way

  July 17, 2013 — New observations show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  New Findings on Makeup of Universe May Spawn Research

  July 16, 2013 — New areas of extragalactic study may emerge from research by astrophysicists using data from the Chandra Space Telescope to conclude that baryons making up all visible matter – once thought to ... > full story
• Sun
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  Heart of Space Weather Observed in Action

  July 15, 2013 — Two NASA spacecraft have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection happens when ... > full story

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