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  NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

  January 16, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up ... > full story
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  Light from Darkness: Brilliant Stars Emerging from Dusty Stellar Nursery

  January 16, 2013 — An evocative new image from the European Southern Observatory shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty ... > full story
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  Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest

  January 15, 2013 — A new way of studying and visualizing Earth science data from a NASA and US Geological Survey satellite program is resulting in, for the first time, the ability to tease out the small events that can ... > full story
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  Asteroid Deflection Mission Seeks Smashing Ideas

  January 15, 2013 — A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster -- an untested mission to deflect it -- fails. This fictional scene of films ... > full story
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  New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

  January 14, 2013 — On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar ... > full story
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  Astronomers Find Massive Supply of Gas Around Modern Galaxies

  January 11, 2013 — Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel -- in this case, fresh gas -- but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now, scientists have ... > full story
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  Nearby Dwarf Galaxy and Possible Protogalaxy Found: Telescopes Reveal Intergalactic Traffic Jam

  January 11, 2013 — Peering deep into the dim edges of a distorted pinwheel galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), astronomers have discovered a faint dwarf galaxy and another possible young dwarf ... > full story
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  NASA Rules out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis

  January 11, 2013 — NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The ... > full story
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  Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars

  January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story
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  NASA's GALEX Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

  January 10, 2013 — The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now astronomers have crowned it the largest-known ... > full story

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