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Posted December 15, 2011:
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:
Posted December 1, 2011:
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
Posted November 24, 2011:
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Posted November 17, 2011:
- Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers, NASA's Hubble Confirms
- Birth of Famous Black Hole: Longstanding Mysteries About Object Called Cygnus X-1 Unraveled
Posted November 16, 2011:
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Posted November 10, 2011:
- Astronomers Find Clouds of Primordial Gas from the Early Universe, Just Moments After Big Bang
- Hubble Uncovers Tiny Galaxies Bursting With Starbirth in Early Universe
Posted November 4, 2011:
Posted November 3, 2011:
- Millisecond Pulsar in Spin Mode: Gamma Radiation of Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star Casts Doubt on Origin Models
- NASA's Fermi Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar, 100 Pulsars to-Date
- Nine New Gamma Pulsars Brings Known Gamma-Ray Pulsars to Over 100
Posted November 2, 2011:
- Carbon-Based Organic 'Carriers' in Interstellar Dust Clouds? Newly Discovered Diffuse Interstellar Bands
- Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Reveal Surprising Ingredients of Early Galaxies
Posted October 28, 2011:
Posted October 27, 2011:
Posted October 26, 2011:
- Faraway Eris Is Pluto's Twin
- Astronomers Discover Complex Organic Matter Exists Throughout the Universe
Posted October 24, 2011:
Posted October 20, 2011:
- Astronomers Explain Blue Stragglers: How Do Mysterious Stars Stay So Young?
- VISTA Finds New Globular Star Clusters and Sees Right Through the Heart of the Milky Way
Posted October 19, 2011:
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Posted October 12, 2011:
- Distant Galaxies Reveal the Clearing of the Cosmic Fog; New VLT Observations Chart Timeline of Reionization
- Amateur Skywatchers Help Space Hazards Team
Posted October 11, 2011:
- Suspects in the Quenching of Star Formation Exonerated
- Astronomers Find Bounty of Failed Stars: One Youngster Only Six Times Heftier Than Jupiter
- Robotic Telescope Network With Access Via Internet to Be Built
Posted October 7, 2011:
- Scientist Searches for Moons Around Asteroids
- Astronomers Hone in on the Cause of Asteroid Scheila’s Outburst
Posted October 6, 2011:

