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  Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon: Smallest Known Moon in the Neptunian System

  July 15, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant ... > full story
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  NASA's OPALS to Beam Data from Space Via Laser

  July 11, 2013 — NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen ... > full story
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  Solar Tsunami Used to Measure Sun's Magnetic Field

  July 11, 2013 — A solar tsunami observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Japanese Hinode spacecraft has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun's magnetic ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Stellar Monsters Do Not Collide: No Hope for a Spectacular Catastrophe

  July 11, 2013 — One might expect that collisions between the remains of monstrous stars, with masses reaching 200-300 times that of our Sun, would be among the most spectacular phenomena in the Universe. Perhaps ... > full story
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  Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet: Giant Jupiter-Sized Planet Located 63 Light-Years Away

  July 11, 2013 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual visible-light color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away. If seen directly the planet, known as HD 189733b, ... > full story
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  IBEX Spacecraft Images the Heliotail, Revealing an Unexpected Structure

  July 10, 2013 — NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft recently provided the first complete pictures of the solar system's downwind region, revealing a unique and unexpected ... > full story
• Stars
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  Astronomers Witness Birth of Milky Way's Most Massive Star

  July 10, 2013 — Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from ... > full story
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  Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry: Using the Sun to Illuminate a Basic Mystery of Matter

  July 8, 2013 — Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to researchers. The finding sheds light on the puzzling strong asymmetry between matter and antimatter by ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Cosmic Dust Belts Without Dust

  July 8, 2013 — Planets and asteroids, red giants and brown dwarfs – there are all kinds of objects in our Universe. Debris disks are among them. These are belts consisting of countless dust particles and ... > full story
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  New Insights Into the Early Bombardment History on Mercury

  July 5, 2013 — Astronomers have studied the surface of Mercury to better understand if the plains were formed by volcanic flows or composed of material ejected from the planet's giant impact ... > full story

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