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  Zapping Deadly Bacteria Using Space Technology

  May 22, 2012 — Technology spin-off from long-running research aboard the International Space Station is opening up a new way to keep hospital patients safe from infections. Using plasma -- electrically charged gas ... > full story
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  Hubble Spies Edge-on Beauty: Galaxy NGC 891

  May 21, 2012 — Visible in the constellation of Andromeda, NGC 891 is located approximately 30 million light-years away from Earth. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful wide field Advanced Camera ... > full story
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  Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit

  May 21, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyby will ... > full story
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  Measuring Transient X-Rays With Lobster Eyes

  May 18, 2012 — A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International Space ... > full story
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  Amateur Astronomers Boost ESA’s Asteroid Hunt

  May 14, 2012 — ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to ... > full story
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  Dwarf Galaxy With a Bright Nebula

  May 10, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made detailed observations of the dwarf galaxy NGC 2366. While it lacks the elegant spiral arms of many larger galaxies, NGC 2366 is home to a bright, ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster

  May 7, 2012 — A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could seem like a quiet patch of sky at first glance. But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster -- one of the largest structures of ... > full story
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  Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures

  May 1, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon's internal structure. The ... > full story
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  Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer

  May 3, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione during close flybys on May 2, 2012, capturing these raw images. The flybys were the last close encounters of these ... > full story
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  Hubble Images Searchlight Beams from a Preplanetary Nebula

  April 27, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into what happens to stars like our sun at the ends of their lives. One stage that stars pass through as they run out of ... > full story

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