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  Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Brings Remarkable Details to Light in Stellar Nursery

  January 9, 2013 — A new image reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by removing distortions ... > full story
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  New Approach for Simulating Supernovas

  January 8, 2013 — Researchers are trying to bridge the gap between studies of supernova blasts and the remnants they leave behind. They hope to use a relatively new computer code to show more of the evolution from ... > full story
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  Hubble Eyes the Needle Galaxy: IC 2233, One of the Flattest Galaxies Known

  December 28, 2012 — Like finding a silver needle in the haystack of space, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy IC 2233, one of the flattest galaxies ... > full story
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  A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style

  December 18, 2012 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary nebula called NGC 5189. The intricate structure of this bright gaseous nebula resembles a ... > full story
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  Exploding Star Missing from Formation of Solar System

  December 17, 2012 — A new study challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar ... > full story
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  Image of the Carina Nebula Marks Inauguration of VLT Survey Telescope

  December 6, 2012 — A spectacular new image of the star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory and released on the occasion of the ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Galaxy Hit a Bullseye

  December 6, 2012 — In Hubble’s image, NGC 922 clearly reveals itself not to be a normal spiral galaxy. The spiral arms are disrupted, a stream of stars extends out towards the top of the image, and a bright ring ... > full story
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  Hubble Eyes a Loose Spiral Galaxy

  November 23, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered with nearby ... > 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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  Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud

  November 14, 2012 — The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton space ... > full story

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