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  Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact

  April 23, 2013 — Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ... > full story
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  Universality of Circular Polarization in Star And Planet-Forming Regions: Implications for the Origin of Homochirality of Life

  April 23, 2013 — A research team in Japan has performed deep imaging linear and circular polarimetry of the 'Cat's Paw Nebula' (NGC 6334) located in the constellation Scorpius, successfully detecting high degrees of ... > full story
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  The Human Immune System in Space

  April 22, 2013 — When the space shuttle Atlantis touched down in the summer of 2011 at Cape Canaveral, closing the book on the U.S. shuttle program, a team of U.S. Army researchers stood at the ready, eager to get ... > full story
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  NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

  April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Unique Cluster: One of the Hidden 15

  April 19, 2013 — Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the ... > full story
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  NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

  April 19, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared ... > full story
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  Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'

  April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full story

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  Distant Blazar Is a High-Energy Astrophysics Puzzle

  April 18, 2013 — Blazars are the brightest of active galactic nuclei, and many emit very high-energy gamma rays. New observations of the blazar known as PKS 1424+240 show that it is the most distant known source of ... > full story
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  X-Ray View of a Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry

  April 17, 2013 — A long Chandra observation reveals the SN 1006 supernova remnant in exquisite detail. By overlapping 10 different pointings of Chandra's field-of-view, astronomers have stitched together a cosmic ... > full story
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  SOFIA Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation

  April 17, 2013 — Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of ... > full story

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