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  Spitzer Captures Fruits Of Massive Stars' Labors

  June 1, 2005 — The saga of how a few monstrous stars spawned a diverse community of additional stars is told in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The striking picture reveals an eclectic mix of ... > full story
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  Monster Super Star Cluster Discovered In Milky Way

  May 28, 2005 — European astronomers, including a scientist from Cardiff University, have discovered the largest known star cluster in the Milky Way. The super star cluster known as 'Westerlund 1' is made up of ... > full story
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  NASA's Chandra Observatory Catches X-Ray Super-Flares

  May 11, 2005 — New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory imply that X-ray super-flares torched the young Solar System. Such flares likely affected the planet-forming disk around the early Sun, and may have ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is A Member Of Saturn Family

  May 7, 2005 — Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. Phoebe was left behind from the solar nebula, the cloud of ... > full story
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  Livermore Lab Physicist Dates Lifetime Of Solar Nebula At Two Million Years

  May 4, 2005 — The oxygen and magnesium content of some of the oldest objects in the universe are giving clues to the lifetime of the solar nebula, the mass of dust and gas that eventually led to the formation of ... > full story
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  Scientists Model Physics Of Stellar Burning

  April 17, 2005 — A University of California scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with astronomers from around the world recently validated a computer model that predicts the rebirth and stellar burning ... > full story
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  Surf’s Up In The Solar Nebula: Jupiter's Formation Linked To That Of Primitive Meteorites

  March 9, 2005 — The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, the major part of the ... > full story
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  NASA And The Universe Send A Celestial Valentine

  February 13, 2005 — The candles are lit; the champagne is on ice. All you need now are flowers and a ring. This Valentine's Day, NASA's Spitzer and Cassini spacecraft provide you with both, in two intriguing new ... > full story
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  Light Continues To Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst

  February 4, 2005 — The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light ... > full story
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  Probe Opens A New Window To Interstellar Space

  January 21, 2005 — With help from a novel new device, a team of astrophysicists has successfully developed a method for sampling the interstellar medium, specifically to take the temperature of and explore the pockets ... > full story

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