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  Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets

  April 3, 2013 — Researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion. The strategy uses a technique called gravitational ... > full story
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  Search for Dark Matter: Experiment Measures Antimatter Excess in Cosmic Ray Flux

  April 3, 2013 — The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. They report the observation of an excess of positrons in the ... > full story

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  NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at Saturn's Moon Titan

  April 3, 2013 — A laboratory experiment at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests complex organic chemistry that could eventually lead to the ... > full story
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  Taken Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud: First Detection of X-Ray Emission from Young Stars With Masses Similar to Our Sun Outside Our Milky Way Galaxy

  April 3, 2013 — The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. In fact, it was so bright that many navigators used this object to make their way across the oceans. A new ... > full story
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  Craters on the Moon: Pre-Existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts

  April 2, 2013 — Large impacts on the Moon can form wide craters and turn surface rock liquid. Geophysicists once assumed that liquid rock would be homogenous when it cooled. Now researchers have found evidence that ... > full story
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  NASA's SORCE Satellite Marks a Decade in the Sun

  April 2, 2013 — NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has been providing data on the sun's irradiance for 10 years. SORCE measures electromagnetic radiation produced by the sun and the ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees J 900 Masquerading as a Double Star

  April 2, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula -- glowing shells of ionized gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900s by astronomer ... > full story
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  Crawler-Transporter Receives New Roller Bearing Assemblies

  April 2, 2013 — For more than a year, NASA's crawler-transporter (CT) 2 has been undergoing a major tuneup in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Recent work has included preparations to ... > full story
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  Supernova Remnant 1987A Continues to Reveal Its Secrets

  April 1, 2013 — A team of astronomers has succeeded in observing the death throes of a giant star in unprecedented detail. In February of 1987, astronomers observing the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf ... > full story
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  NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON

  March 29, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this ... > full story

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