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  ALMA Telescope Pinpoints Early Galaxies at Record Speed

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers have used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ... > full story
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  Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star

  April 16, 2013 — Scientists have pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant ... > full story

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  • Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
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  'Post-Mortem' Yields Insight Into Kepler's Supernova

  April 8, 2013 — An exploding star observed in 1604 by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler held a greater fraction of heavy elements than the sun, according to an analysis of X-ray observations from the Japan-led ... > full story
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  Listening to the Big Bang -- In High Fidelity

  April 4, 2013 — Physicist have updated the decade-old re-creation of the sound of the Big Bang that started the ... > full story
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  Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova

  April 4, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, ... > full story
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  Green Pea Galaxies Could Help Astronomers Understand Early Universe

  April 3, 2013 — The rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early ... > full story
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  Search for Dark Matter: Experiment Measures Antimatter Excess in Cosmic Ray Flux

  April 3, 2013 — The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. They report the observation of an excess of positrons in the ... > full story

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  • First Data Released from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
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  New Insights on How Spiral Galaxies Get Their Arms

  April 2, 2013 — Spiral galaxies are some of the most beautiful and photogenic residents of the universe. Our own Milky Way is a spiral. Our solar system and Earth reside somewhere near one of its filamentous arms. ... > full story
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  Measuring the Magnetism of Antimatter: Antiprotons Measured More Accurately Than Ever Before

  March 25, 2013 — In a breakthrough that could one day yield important clues about the nature of matter itself, scientists have succeeded in measuring the magnetic charge of single particles of matter and antimatter ... > full story
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  Hubble Digs Up Galactic Glow Worm

  March 24, 2013 — The image of a charming and bright galaxy, known as IRAS 23436+5257, was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It is located in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, which is named ... > full story

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