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  Unlocking The Frozen Secrets Of Comet Wild 2

  December 19, 2006 — Eleven months ago, NASA's Stardust mission touched down in the Utah desert with the first solid comet samples ever retrieved from space. Since then, nearly 200 scientists from around the globe have ... > full story
• Stars
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  Star On A Hubble Diet

  December 12, 2006 — High-resolution observations from Hubble have shed light on the real mass of a star previously believed to be amongst the heaviest known in our Milky Way. Originally, the mass of the star was thought ... > full story
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  Spitzer And Hubble Create Colorful Masterpiece

  November 8, 2006 — A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of infrared, ... > full story
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  Japanese Space Probe's View Of Large Magellanic Cloud: Star Formation At Work

  November 1, 2006 — The infrared surveyor AKARI, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission with ESA participation, is nearing the completion of its first scan of the entire sky. During this phase of the ... > full story
• Big Bang
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  Big Bang Theory Saved

  October 26, 2006 — An apparent discrepancy in the Big Bang theory of the universe's evolution has been reconciled by astrophysicists examining the movement of gases in stars. Professor John Lattanzio from Monash's ... > full story
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  Supernova Radioisotopes Show Sun Was Born In Star Cluster, Scientists Say

  October 4, 2006 — The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being an ... > full story
• Stars
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  AKARI's View On Birth And Death Of Stars

  August 30, 2006 — AKARI, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) infrared astronomical satellite with ESA participation, is continuing its survey of the sky and its mapping of our cosmos in infrared light. New ... > full story
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  NASA's Spitzer Digs Up Troves Of Possible Solar Systems In Orion

  August 14, 2006 — Astronomers have long scrutinized the vast and layered clouds of the Orion nebula, an industrious star-making factory visible to the naked eye in the sword of the famous hunter constellation. Yet, ... > full story
• Stars
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  Large And Small Stars In Harmonious Coexistence

  August 14, 2006 — The latest photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague this week, shows a star forming region in the Large ... > full story
• Stars
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  A Sub-Stellar Jonah: Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed

  August 14, 2006 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colors, orbit each other. One is a rather hot white dwarf, weighing ... > full story

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