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  Leading by the Nose: Star-Nosed Mole Reveals How Mammals Perceive Touch, Pain

  January 30, 2013 — The most sensitive patch of mammalian skin known to us isn't human but on the star-shaped tip of the star-nosed mole's snout. Researchers studying this organ have found that the star has a higher ... > full story
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  Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making Planets

  January 30, 2013 — A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to ... > full story

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  Hubble Finds Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Looking at the Stars in NGC 411

  January 26, 2013 — Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. Hubble is one of the best telescopes for studying these, as its ... > full story
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  Origin and Maintenance of a Retrograde Exoplanet

  January 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown that the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1040 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, includes at least two giant planets and one companion star. The ... > full story
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  Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers

  January 24, 2013 — New observations of a pulsar challenge all proposed pulsar emissions theories, a new study reports. This reopens a decades-old debate about the nature of these bizarre ... > full story

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  • Chameleon Pulsar Dramatically Changes the Way It Shines
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  Red Explosions: Secret Life of Binary Stars Is Revealed

  January 24, 2013 — An astrophysicist has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that produce an explosion so powerful its luminosity ranks close to that of a supernova, an exploding ... > full story
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  3-D Fireworks of a Star: Astronomers Reconstruct Journey of Emitted Gas

  January 24, 2013 — In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now astronomers have reconstructed the journey of the emitted gas in 3-D which, ... > full story
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  Setting the Dark on Fire: Beautiful View of Clouds of Cosmic Dust in Region of Orion

  January 23, 2013 — In space, dense clouds of cosmic gas and dust are the birthplaces of new stars. In visible light, this dust is dark and obscuring, hiding the stars behind it. So much so that, when astronomer William ... > full story
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  Betelgeuse Braces for a Collision: Red Supergiant Star to Crash Into Dusty 'Wall'

  January 22, 2013 — Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in a new image from the European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields ... > full story
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  Did an 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth?

  January 21, 2013 — A nearby short duration gamma-ray burst may be the cause of an intense blast of high-energy radiation that hit the Earth in the 8th century, according to new ... > full story

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