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  Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship

  May 16, 2013 — On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... > full story
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  NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation

  May 15, 2013 — Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story
• Mars
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  New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year

  May 15, 2013 — Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Scientists Shape First Global Topographic Map of Saturn's Moon Titan

  May 15, 2013 — Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earthlike and interesting worlds in the ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy

  May 15, 2013 — The intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to produce immense power in the form of jets moving at millions of miles per ... > full story
• Water
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  Billion-Year-Old Water Could Hold Clues to Life on Earth and Mars

  May 15, 2013 — Scientists have discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life. This water could be some of ... > full story
• Stars
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  Orion's Hidden Fiery Ribbon

  May 15, 2013 — A dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. This orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar ... > full story
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  Entrepreneur Giving Space Shuttle Truss New Uses

  May 14, 2013 — A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric ... > full story
• Solar Flare
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  First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

  May 14, 2013 — On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 ... > full story

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  New Method of Finding Planets Scores Its First Discovery

  May 13, 2013 — Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for ... > full story

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