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  Eros Is Relic Of Solar System's Birth Says Cornell Researcher, As NASA Spacecraft Obtains First Snapshot Of An Asteroid's Chemical Makeup

  May 31, 2000 — Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend, NASA's mission to orbit and study a distant asteroid presented researchers with a glimpse of the birth of the solar system. The spacecraft orbiting the ... > full story
• Cosmic Rays
  Space Telescopes
  Black Holes
  Astronomy
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  Chandra X-Ray Observatory Shows New Way To Measure Cosmic Distances

  April 25, 2000 — Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of scientists has attacked one of astronomy’s oldest and thorniest problems, determining the distance to a cosmic ... > full story
• Nebulae
  Galaxies
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  Hubble Surveys Dying Stars In Nearby Galaxy

  March 10, 2000 — From ground-based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun-like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light. But through ... > full story
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  NASA
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  Hubble Takes A Close-Up View Of A Reflection Nebula In Orion

  March 6, 2000 — Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped a picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. The Heritage ... > full story
• Space Telescopes
  NASA
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  Hubble Space Telescope Captures Light And Shadow In The Carina Nebula

  February 1, 2000 — Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by a new image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space ... > full story
• NASA
  Space Exploration
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  Hubble Reopens Eye On The Universe

  January 26, 2000 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, as made dramatically evident in stunning new celestial pictures of remote galaxies and a colorful dying star. The pictures are a culmination of ... > full story
• Nebulae
  Cosmic Rays
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  Astronomers Find Nebula Appears Larger Than It Is

  January 19, 2000 — Astronomers from Virginia Tech announced on Thursday, Jan. 13, at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Atlanta that a well-known, luminous cloud of gas in our galaxy called the Rosette ... > full story
• Nebulae
  Stars
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Extrasolar Planets
  Space Exploration
   

  Hubble Views An Expanding Bubble In Space

  January 17, 2000 — Astronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented ... > full story
• Stars
  Space Telescopes
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Nebulae
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  Chandra Finds X-Ray Star Bonanza In The Orion Nebula

  January 13, 2000 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has resolved nearly a thousand faint X-ray-emitting stars in a single observation of young stars in the Orion Nebula. ... > full story
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
  Stars
  Astrophysics
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  Hubble Reveals Swarm Of Glittering Stars In Nearby Galaxy

  December 2, 1999 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered at a small area within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to provide the deepest color picture ever obtained in that satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. ... > full story

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