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  Herschel Space Observatory to Complete Its Mission Soon

  March 6, 2013 — The Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks, after spending more than three years studying the cool universe and surpassing the ... > full story
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  Gravitational Telescope Creates Space Invader Mirage

  March 5, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein's general theory of relativity, ... > full story
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  Hubble Observes Glowing, Fiery Shells of Gas

  March 1, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula known as ESO 456-67. Set against a backdrop of ... > full story
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  Icy Cosmic Start for Amino Acids and DNA Ingredients

  February 28, 2013 — Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some basic ... > full story
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  Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph

  February 27, 2013 — NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope sweeps across ... > full story
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  White Dwarf Supernovae Are Discovered in Virgo Cluster Galaxy and in Sky Area 'Anonymous'

  February 27, 2013 — Observation of two bright exploding stars has improved the astronomical "tape measure" that scientists use to calculate the acceleration of the expansion of the ... > full story
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  NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

  February 27, 2013 — Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin ... > full story
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  New Greek Observatory Sheds Light on Old Star

  February 27, 2013 — Continuing a tradition stretching back more than 25 centuries, astronomers have used the new 2.3-meter 'Aristarchos' telescope, sited at Helmos Observatory (2340m high) in the Pelοponnese ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Glowing Jet from a Young Star

  February 24, 2013 — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image showing an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate, orange-hued plume of gas and ... > full story
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  Discovering the Birth of an Asteroid Trail

  February 21, 2013 — Unlike comets, asteroids are not characterised by exhibiting a trail, but there are now ten exceptions. Researchers have observed one of these rare asteroids from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spain) ... > full story

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