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  Betelgeuse Braces for a Collision: Red Supergiant Star to Crash Into Dusty 'Wall'

  January 22, 2013 — Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in a new image from the European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields ... > full story
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  Mars' Reull Vallis: A River Ran Through It

  January 22, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in ... > full story
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  Did an 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth?

  January 21, 2013 — A nearby short duration gamma-ray burst may be the cause of an intense blast of high-energy radiation that hit the Earth in the 8th century, according to new ... > full story
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  New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System

  January 21, 2013 — Planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras – similar to Earth’s Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar ... > full story
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  Mars May Have Supported Life: Martian Underground Could Contain Clues to Life's Origins

  January 20, 2013 — Minerals found in the subsurface of Mars, a zone of more than three miles below ground, make for the strongest evidence yet that the red planet may have supported life, according to new ... > full story
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  Nearby Universe's 'Cosmic Fog' Measured

  January 19, 2013 — Researchers have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background light in the nearby universe, a fog of photons that has filled the universe ever since its ... > full story
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  Saturn's Largest Moon Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover'

  January 17, 2013 — Titan's siblings must be jealous. While most of Saturn's moons display their ancient faces pockmarked by thousands of craters, Titan -- Saturn's largest moon -- may look much younger than it really ... > full story
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  NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon

  January 17, 2013 — As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from ... > full story
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  Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud

  January 17, 2013 — Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it ... > full story
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  ChemCam Follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian Wet Area

  January 16, 2013 — Researchers have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on ... > full story

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