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  Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova

  May 3, 2013 — These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded ... > full story
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  Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space

  April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story
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  Entire Galaxies Feel the Heat from Newborn Stars: Bursts of Star Birth Can Curtail Future Galaxy Growth

  April 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. These energetic events can affect galactic gas at distances ... > full story
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  Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact

  April 23, 2013 — Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Unique Cluster: One of the Hidden 15

  April 19, 2013 — Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the ... > full story
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  For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision

  April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?

  April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story
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  NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It

  April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story
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  Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc

  April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story
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  NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

  April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story

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