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  Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy Discovered

  November 15, 2012 — By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new distance record for finding the ... > full story
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  Meteorites Reveal Warm Water Existed on Mars

  November 15, 2012 — Hydrothermal fractures around Martian impact craters may have been a habitable environment for microbial life. New research into evidence of water on Mars determined that water temperatures on the ... > full story
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  Born-Again Star Foreshadows Fate of Solar System

  November 15, 2012 — Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate our own Solar System faces in a few ... > full story
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  NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension

  November 15, 2012 — NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's three-and-a-half-year prime mission and the beginning of an extended ... > full story
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  Mars Rover's 'SAM' Lab Instrument Suite Tastes Soil

  November 13, 2012 — A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: the Sample Analysis at Mars, or ... > full story
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  Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Orbiter Resumes Work With Fresh Equipment

  November 13, 2012 — The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment, including a main computer, that had not been used since before the spacecraft's 2001 ... > full story
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  Van Allen Probes: NASA Renames Radiation Belt Mission to Honor Pioneering Scientist

  November 11, 2012 — NASA has renamed a recently launched mission that studies Earth's radiation belts as the Van Allen Probes in honor of the late James Van Allen. Van Allen was the head of the physics department at the ... > full story
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  Hubble Spots a Colorful Lenticular Galaxy

  November 9, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful galaxy that, with its reddish and yellow central area, looks rather like an explosion from a Hollywood movie. The galaxy, called NGC 5010, ... > full story
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  New Australian Telescope Set to Find 700,000 Galaxies

  November 9, 2012 — Australia's newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies, say scientists planning for CSIRO's next-generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder ... > full story
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  Firestation: Getting Ready for Launch

  November 8, 2012 — An experiment to study the effects of lightning flashes on Earth's atmosphere has taken its first steps on its journey to space. The Firestation experiment has undergone numerous tests to make sure ... > full story

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