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  Cassini Makes Simultaneous Measurements of Saturn's Nightside Aurora and Associated Electric Current System

  March 27, 2012 — Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the first ... > full story
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  Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet Over Enceladus South Pole

  March 26, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The ... > full story
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  European Space Agency Cargo Ship Carries Research and Technology Investigations to International Space Station

  March 23, 2012 — When the European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship arrives at the International Space Station on March 28, it will be packed with more than seven tons of supplies, including ... > full story
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  Vista Stares Deep Into the Cosmos: Treasure Trove of New Infrared Data Made Available to Astronomers

  March 21, 2012 — The European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has created the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. This new picture of an unremarkable patch of sky comes from the ... > full story
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  Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus

  March 20, 2012 — Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's ... > full story
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  Glittering Jewels of Messier 9

  March 16, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the so far most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint ... > full story
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  Near-Miss Asteroid Will Return Next Year, Even Closer

  March 15, 2012 — When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet -- but not by much. The 50-meter space rock is expected to come closer than many satellites, highlighting ... > full story
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  Astronomers Get Rare Peek at Early Stage of Star Formation

  March 14, 2012 — Astronomers are excited to get their first look at a clump of gas they think is about to start forming stars. Unlike others seen, this one is "pristine," unaffected by the violent stellar winds and ... > full story
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  Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon

  March 13, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of ... > full story
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  Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust

  February 29, 2012 — Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The ... > full story

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