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NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'
June 27, 2013 Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar ... > full story -
Spiral Galaxies Like Milky Way Bigger Than Thought
June 27, 2013 Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new ... > full story -
Sterilizing Mars Spacecraft Is Largely a Waste of Money, Two Experts Argue
June 27, 2013 Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive -- on ... > full story -
Violent Birth of Neutron Stars: Computer Simulations Confirm Sloshing and Spiral Motions as Stellar Matter Falls Inward
June 27, 2013 Scientists have conducted the most expensive and most elaborate computer simulations so far to study the formation of neutron stars at the center of collapsing stars with unprecedented accuracy. ... > full story -
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered
June 26, 2013 All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars are born in small groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms, where stars jostle with thousands of neighbors while strong ... > full story -
Astronomers Spy on Galaxies in the Raw
June 26, 2013 A radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old -- less than a quarter of its current ... > full story -
Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star: Gliese 667c Reexamined
June 25, 2013 Astronomers have combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of these planets are super-Earths lying in the zone ... > full story -
Five Years of Stereo Imaging for NASA's TWINS
June 24, 2013 Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves and ... > full story -
Messier 61 Looks Straight Into Hubble's Camera
June 24, 2013 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly ... > full story -
Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes from Curiosity Rover
June 24, 2013 A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great ... > full story
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