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  Calar Alto Mirrors In Space

  May 15, 2009 — The space telescope Herschel is the largest space-borne observatory to date, carrying the biggest astronomical mirror ever launched into orbit. Calar Alto Observatory has built the telescopes applied ... > full story
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  Herschel And Planck On Way To Study Our Cosmic Roots

  May 14, 2009 — The Herschel and Planck spacecraft successfully blasted into space May 14 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Herschel will explore, with unprecedented clarity, the earliest stages of star ... > full story
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  Herschel And Planck Flight Dynamics: It Really Is Rocket Science

  May 11, 2009 — Once Herschel and Planck are launched, ESA's Flight Dynamics team are responsible for knowing where they are, where they are headed and how soon they will get there. The team uses sophisticated ... > full story
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  Herschel And Planck Share Ride To Space

  May 5, 2009 — Two missions to study the cosmos, Herschel and Planck, are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French ... > full story
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  Astronomer To Search Space For Precursors Of Life

  April 29, 2009 — Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. Astronomers will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new detail in the warm ... > full story
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  Charged Dust From Inside Saturn's Moon Enceladus

  April 22, 2009 — A team of planetary scientists working on the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has discovered tiny, charged icy particles in the plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus that offer a tantalising ... > full story
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  Peanut-Shaped Stellar Explosion Spotted By Hubble

  April 22, 2009 — Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have taken the first optical images of a dramatic stellar outburst and discovered a peanut-shaped bubble expanding rapidly into ... > full story
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  Hubble Survey Reveals Formation Of Universe's First Massive Galaxies

  April 22, 2009 — First results from the GOODS NICMOS survey, the largest Hubble Space Telescope program ever led from outside of the United States, reveal how the most massive galaxies in the early universe assembled ... > full story
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  Scientists Pinpoint The 'Edge Of Space'

  April 9, 2009 — Where does Earth stop and space begin? 118-kilometers above the ground, according to scientists who created an new instrument that is able to pinpoint the so-called "edge of ... > full story
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  Dramatically Backlit Dust In Giant Galaxy

  April 7, 2009 — A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC ... > full story

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