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  NASA's Robotic Refueling Demo Set to Jumpstart Expanded Capabilities in Space

  January 10, 2013 — In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM aboard the International Space Station. The ... > full story
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  NASA Researchers Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies

  January 10, 2013 — Advanced propulsion researchers at NASA are a step closer to solving the challenge of safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations. By using an innovative test facility ... > full story
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  A Jumble of Exotic Stars: New VISTA Snap of Star Cluster 47 Tucanae

  January 10, 2013 — A new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in striking detail. This cluster contains millions of stars, and there are many ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Life Possible on Extrasolar Moons

  January 10, 2013 — In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that ... > full story
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  Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid Apophis

  January 9, 2013 — Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend. The data show the asteroid to be bigger than first estimated, and ... > full story
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  Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Brings Remarkable Details to Light in Stellar Nursery

  January 9, 2013 — A new image reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by removing distortions ... > full story
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  Mapping the Milky Way: Radio Telescopes Give Clues to Structure, History

  January 9, 2013 — Surveys of the Milky Way are vastly increasing the number of known sites of massive star formation, tracing the structure of the Galaxy and giving clues to its history, including evidence of possible ... > full story
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  SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center

  January 8, 2013 — Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole ... > full story
• Eris (Xena)
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  Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B

  January 8, 2013 — Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary ... > full story
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  NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

  January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data from NASA's Spitzer Space ... > full story

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