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  Famous Supernova Reveals Clues About Crucial Cosmic Distance Markers

  March 18, 2013 — A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova, discovered in 1604 by Johannes Kepler, belongs to an important class of ... > full story
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  NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

  March 18, 2013 — A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion with the recent assembly of ... > full story
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  Hubble Gazes on One Ring to Rule Them All

  March 18, 2013 — Galaxies can take many forms -- elliptical blobs, swirling spiral arms, bulges, and disks are all known components of the wide range of galaxies we have observed using telescopes like the NASA/ESA ... > full story
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  A Youthful 'Star Wreck': Youngest-Known Supernova Remnants in Our Milky Way Galaxy

  March 15, 2013 — While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star. Designated G306.3.9 after the ... > full story
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  Distant Planetary System Is a Super-Sized Solar System

  March 14, 2013 — Astronomers have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our Solar System. A spectrum reveals that the carbon to oxygen ratio is consistent with the ... > full story
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  'Monster' Starburst Galaxies Discovered in Early Universe

  March 13, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered starburst galaxies earlier in the Universe's history than they were previously thought to have existed. These newly discovered galaxies represent what today's most massive ... > full story

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  • Rewriting History of Universe's Stellar Baby Boom: Ancient, Highly Active Galaxies Discovered
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  Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble

  March 11, 2013 — A new Hubble image, speckled with blue, white and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC 5052. Surrounded in the image by foreground stars in our own galaxy, and distant galaxies beyond, it ... > full story
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  Closest Star System Found in a Century

  March 11, 2013 — A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun and the closest discovered since 1916. At 6.5 light years, it is so close that Earth's television transmissions from 2006 ... > full story
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  Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

  March 8, 2013 — Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to see one of these icy dirtballs ... > full story
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  Hubble Finds 'Birth Certificate' of Oldest Known Star

  March 7, 2013 — Astronomers have taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a very long time. The star could be as old as 14.5 billion years (plus or minus 0.8 ... > full story

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