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  Bright Comet in the Evening Sky

  March 7, 2013 — Skywatchers in the northern hemisphere should enjoy a rare treat in the next few weeks, as Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS enters the evening sky. Although the brightness of comets is notoriously difficult ... > 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
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

  March 6, 2013 — Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October ... > full story
• Origin of Life
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Earth Science
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
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  New Evidence That Comets Could Have Seeded Life on Earth

  March 5, 2013 — Scientists have shown that complex molecules can form on icy dust in space, suggesting that comets may have brought these molecules to Earth and seeded the growth of more complex building blocks of ... > full story
• Galaxies
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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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  Mars Rover Curiosity's Recovery on Track

  March 5, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by ... > full story
• Nature of Water
  Mars
  Cosmic Rays
  Uranus
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  Sun
   
  

  Working at the Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

  March 4, 2013 — Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense ... > full story
• Saturn
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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
• Space Station
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  SpaceX's Dragon Carrying NASA Cargo Resupplies Space Station

  March 3, 2013 — The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery flight was the second contracted resupply ... > full story
• Nebulae
  Stars
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  Hubble Observes Glowing, Fiery Shells of Gas

  March 1, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula known as ESO 456-67. Set against a backdrop of ... > full story

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