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  Russian Asteroid Strike: Numerous Injuries, Significant Damage

  February 15, 2013 — A space rock a few metres across exploded in Earth's atmosphere above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia today (Feb. 15, 2013) at about 03:15 GMT. The numerous injuries and significant damage remind us ... > full story
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  NASA Set for New Round of J-2X Testing at Stennis Space Center

  February 12, 2013 — NASA's progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency's Space Launch System ... > full story
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  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission

  February 12, 2013 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ... > full story
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  Cassini Sees Saturn's Moon Titan Cooking Up Smog

  February 4, 2013 — Newly published research using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere are kick-started at Saturn's moon Titan. ... > full story
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  New Video Brings Webb Telescope's Third Mirror to Light

  February 1, 2013 — There are four types of mirrors that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. They're called the "primary, secondary, tertiary" and fine steering mirrors. Although the 18 primary mirror ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite

  January 30, 2013 — The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday (Jan. 30) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... > full story
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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
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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
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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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