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  From Cotton Candy to Rock: New Evidence About Beginnings of the Solar System

  March 27, 2011 — The earliest rocks in our solar system were more like cotton candy than the hard rock that we know today, according to new ... > full story
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  NASA's Venerable Comet Hunter Stardust Spacecraft Wraps Up Mission

  March 26, 2011 — On March 24, 2011, NASA's Stardust spacecraft finished its last transmission to Earth. The transmission came on the heels of the venerable spacecraft's final rocket burn, which was designed to ... > full story
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  Black Hole Found in Binary Star System: More Than Five Times Greater in Mass Than Our Sun

  March 25, 2011 — The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) has obtained the first spectroscopy data from the X-ray transient binary XTE J1859+226, which confirm the existence of a black hole. Only about 20 binary stellar ... > full story
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  NASA's Juno Spacecraft Completes Thermal Vacuum Chamber Testing

  March 23, 2011 — NASA's Juno spacecraft has completed its thermal vacuum chamber testing. The two-week-long test, which concluded on March 13, 2011, is the longest the spacecraft will undergo prior to ... > full story
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  Webb Telescope Sunshield Is Like an Umbrella on the Shores of the Universe

  March 21, 2011 — The James Webb Space Telescope has a unique shield to protect its sensitive instruments from the heat and light of the sun. The sunshield is like an umbrella popping open on the shores of the cosmos ... > full story
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  Mercury-Bound Instruments Aboard MESSENGER Arrive at Target

  March 21, 2011 — As the MESSENGER spacecraft begins its science operations above the surface of Mercury, NASA instruments are gearing up to help unveil the planet's ... > full story
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  MESSENGER Spacecraft to Swing Into Orbit Around Mercury

  March 15, 2011 — The MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to go into orbit around Mercury on March 17. The mission is an effort to study the geologic history, magnetic field, surface composition and other mysteries of ... > full story
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  Voyager Seeks the Answer Blowin' in the Wind

  March 8, 2011 — In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting ... > full story
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  Oldest Objects in Solar System Indicate a Turbulent Beginning

  March 3, 2011 — Scientists have found that calcium, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), some of the oldest objects in the solar system, formed far away from our sun and then later fell back into the mid-plane of the ... > full story
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  New Observations of the Giant Planet Orbiting Beta Pictoris

  March 3, 2011 — New observations have been made of the giant planet around beta Pictoris. Discovered in 2009, this planet, called beta Pictoris b, has now been detected again with the NaCo instrument on the VLT. ... > full story

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