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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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  • New Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
  • New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets
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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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  Massive Galaxy Had Intense Burst of Star Formation When Universe Was Only 6 Percent of Current Age

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers find the most prolific star factory yet seen, in a far-distant galaxy that reveals important information about the cosmic environment in the early history of the ... > full story

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  • Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe
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  ALMA Telescope Pinpoints Early Galaxies at Record Speed

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers have used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ... > full story
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  Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star

  April 16, 2013 — Scientists have pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant ... > full story

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  • Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
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  For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision

  April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story
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  NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

  April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story

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