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  Hubble Spots a Supernova in NGC 5806

  August 31, 2012 — A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin). It lies around 80 million light years from Earth. Also visible in this ... > full story
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  Saturn and Its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors

  August 29, 2012 — Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released today. One image captures the changing hues of ... > full story
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  Hubble Captures a Collection of Ancient Stars

  August 25, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M 56 or NGC 6779), which is located about 33,000 light years away from Earth in ... > full story
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  Webb Telescope's 'Golden Spider'

  August 23, 2012 — What looks like a giant golden spider weaving a web of cables and cords, is actually ground support equipment, including the Optical Telescope Simulator (OSIM), for the James Webb Space Telescope. ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Lonely Galactic Island

  August 18, 2012 — In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a big, spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Numerous, less glamorous dwarf galaxies keep the Milky Way company. Many ... > full story
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  Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course

  August 16, 2012 — Astronomers have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite ... > full story
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  Second Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb Space Telescope

  August 13, 2012 — The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) will enable the telescope to accurately and ... > full story
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  NASA STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs on Record

  August 13, 2012 — On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft along ... > full story
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  Hubble's Close Encounter With the Tarantula

  August 11, 2012 — Turning its eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up of the outskirts of the main cloud of the ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Ten Billion Year Stellar Dance

  August 4, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers a delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a globular cluster. Mutual ... > full story

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