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  Cool, New Views of Andromeda Galaxy

  January 28, 2013 — Two new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess. They show the elegant spiral galaxy Andromeda, named after the mythical Greek princess known for her ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission

  January 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark ... > full story
• Nebulae
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  Setting the Dark on Fire: Beautiful View of Clouds of Cosmic Dust in Region of Orion

  January 23, 2013 — In space, dense clouds of cosmic gas and dust are the birthplaces of new stars. In visible light, this dust is dark and obscuring, hiding the stars behind it. So much so that, when astronomer William ... > full story
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  Hubble Focuses on the 'Great Attractor'

  January 22, 2013 — A busy patch of space has been captured in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the ... > full story
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  NASA Signs Agreement for a European-Provided Orion Service Module

  January 22, 2013 — NASA signed an agreement in mid-December for the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft's Exploration Mission-1 in ... > full story
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  NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

  January 22, 2013 — Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & ... > full story
• Stars
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  Betelgeuse Braces for a Collision: Red Supergiant Star to Crash Into Dusty 'Wall'

  January 22, 2013 — Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in a new image from the European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud

  January 17, 2013 — Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it ... > full story
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  Asteroid Deflection Mission Seeks Smashing Ideas

  January 15, 2013 — A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster -- an untested mission to deflect it -- fails. This fictional scene of films ... > full story
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  New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

  January 14, 2013 — On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar ... > full story

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