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Deep, Detailed Image of Distant Universe
April 30, 2013 — Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for ... > full story -
Mars Opportunity Rover in Standby as Commanding Moratorium Ends
April 30, 2013 — During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun -- a phase called solar conjunction -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered a type of standby ... > full story -
Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story -
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
April 30, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, ... > full story -
Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through 'Characterization by Proxy'
April 26, 2013 — An astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may ... > full story -
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings
April 25, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only ... > full story -
Einstein's Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet
April 25, 2013 — A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity. The extremely strong gravity of a massive ... > full story -
Entire Galaxies Feel the Heat from Newborn Stars: Bursts of Star Birth Can Curtail Future Galaxy Growth
April 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. These energetic events can affect galactic gas at distances ... > full story -
TRAPPIST Participated in the Detection of Ten Percent of All Transiting Exoplanets Known to Date
April 25, 2013 — Among the many planets detected orbiting other stars (exoplanets) over the last twenty years, a little less than three hundred periodically pass in front of their star. This is what astronomers call ... > full story -
Mysterious Hot Spots Observed in Cool Red Supergiant
April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse – one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth – revealing the detailed structure of the matter being thrown off ... > full story
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