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  NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

  March 18, 2013 — A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion with the recent assembly of ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Hubble Gazes on One Ring to Rule Them All

  March 18, 2013 — Galaxies can take many forms -- elliptical blobs, swirling spiral arms, bulges, and disks are all known components of the wide range of galaxies we have observed using telescopes like the NASA/ESA ... > full story
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  Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble

  March 11, 2013 — A new Hubble image, speckled with blue, white and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC 5052. Surrounded in the image by foreground stars in our own galaxy, and distant galaxies beyond, it ... > full story
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  Cassini Returns Images of Battered Saturn's Moon Rhea

  March 11, 2013 — Following its last close flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these raw, unprocessed images of the battered icy moon. They show an ancient, cratered surface bearing the ... > full story
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  Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea

  March 8, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the internal ... > full story
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  Southampton Scientist Investigates Russian Meteor

  March 7, 2013 — Dr Hugh Lewis from the University of Southampton has analysed the recent extraordinary Russian meteor event using the "NEOImpactor" tool, which was developed by researchers from the University and ... > full story
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  Probing Extreme Matter Through Observations of Neutron Stars

  March 6, 2013 — Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. New results have provided one of the most ... > full story
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  Herschel Space Observatory to Complete Its Mission Soon

  March 6, 2013 — The Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks, after spending more than three years studying the cool universe and surpassing the ... > full story
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  Gravitational Telescope Creates Space Invader Mirage

  March 5, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein's general theory of relativity, ... > full story
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  Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit

  March 4, 2013 — A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around ... > full story

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