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Posted January 25, 2012:
- Giant Asteroid Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
- NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch
- The Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies: Dramatic Star Formation Cut Short by Black Holes
Posted January 19, 2012:
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Posted January 11, 2012:
- How Star-Forming Galaxies Evolve Into 'Red and Dead' Elliptical Galaxies
- Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy
- NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground With Distant Supernova Discovery
- Mystery of Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Solved
- Rare Ultra-Blue Stars Found in Neighboring Galaxy's Hub
Posted January 10, 2012:
- Astronomers Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black Hole's Jet
- Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery
- El Gordo: A 'Fat' Distant Galaxy Cluster
- When Galaxy Clusters Collide: Collision Could Help Astronomers Better Understand 'Dark Matter'
Posted January 9, 2012:
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year of Achievement and Success
- Clearest Picture Yet of Dark Matter Points the Way to Better Understanding of Dark Energy
- Astronomers Reach New Frontiers of Dark Matter
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Posted December 20, 2011:
- First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System: Smallest Exoplanets Ever Confirmed Around a Star Like Our Sun
- New Evidence for Complex Molecules on Pluto's Surface
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Posted December 15, 2011:
- Young Star Rebels Against Its Parent Cloud
- First Low-Mass Star Detected in Globular Cluster
- A Galaxy Blooming With New Stars
Posted December 14, 2011:
- 'Supernova of a Generation' Shows Its Stuff: Astronomers Determine How Brightest and Closest Stellar Explosion in 25 Years Happened
- Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling Into Milky Way's Central Black Hole
Posted December 13, 2011:
Posted December 7, 2011:
- SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array, Targeting New Planets
- Powerful Detectors on Hawaiian Telescope to Probe Origins of Stars, Planets and Galaxies
- Vampire Star Reveals Its Secrets
Posted December 5, 2011:
- NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone Outside Our Solar System
- Astronomers Find Fastest Rotating Star
Posted December 2, 2011:
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Posted November 30, 2011:
- Astronomers Discover New Exoplanet Similar in Size to Earth; Planet Kepler-21b Found Using Space and Ground-Based Observations
- NASA's Swift Finds a Gamma-Ray Burst With a Dual Personality
- In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt 'Signal of Impending Doom'
Posted November 28, 2011:
- In the Heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi Reveals a Cosmic-Ray Cocoon
- One Promising Puzzle Piece for Confirming Dark Matter Now Seems Unlikely Fit
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