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  NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

  April 19, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared ... > full story
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  Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'

  April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full story

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  • New Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
  • New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets
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  Distant Blazar Is a High-Energy Astrophysics Puzzle

  April 18, 2013 — Blazars are the brightest of active galactic nuclei, and many emit very high-energy gamma rays. New observations of the blazar known as PKS 1424+240 show that it is the most distant known source of ... > full story
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  X-Ray View of a Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry

  April 17, 2013 — A long Chandra observation reveals the SN 1006 supernova remnant in exquisite detail. By overlapping 10 different pointings of Chandra's field-of-view, astronomers have stitched together a cosmic ... > full story
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  SOFIA Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation

  April 17, 2013 — Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of ... > full story
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  How to Target an Asteroid

  April 17, 2013 — Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Massive Galaxy Had Intense Burst of Star Formation When Universe Was Only 6 Percent of Current Age

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers find the most prolific star factory yet seen, in a far-distant galaxy that reveals important information about the cosmic environment in the early history of the ... > full story

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  • Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe
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  NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves

  April 16, 2013 — To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into ... > full story
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  For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision

  April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?

  April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story

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