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  Young Star Suggests Our Sun Was a Feisty Toddler

  June 5, 2013 — If you had a time machine that could take you anywhere in the past, what time would you choose? Most people would probably pick the era of the dinosaurs in hopes of spotting a T. rex. But many ... > full story
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  Lightest Exoplanet to Be Directly Observed So Far? Faint Object Moves Near Bright Star

  June 3, 2013 — A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has imaged a faint object moving near a bright star. With an estimated mass of four to five times that of Jupiter, ... > full story
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  NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Team Assembles Final Observatory

  May 30, 2013 — On May 20, 2013, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reached an unprecedented milestone. The team mated the instrument and ... > full story
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  Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions

  May 30, 2013 — Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story
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  Comet ISON Is Hurtling Toward Uncertain Destiny With Sun

  May 30, 2013 — A new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the comet could present a stunning sight in the ... > full story
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  NASA's WISE Mission Finds 'Lost' Asteroid Family Members

  May 29, 2013 — Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers used millions of infrared ... > full story
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  NASA IRIS: Improving Our View of the Sun

  May 29, 2013 — In late June 2013, NASA will launch a new set of eyes to offer the most detailed look ever of the sun's lower atmosphere, called the interface region. This region is believed to play a crucial role ... > full story
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  Hubble Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape

  May 23, 2013 — The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like ... > full story
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  Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares Explained: The Culprit Is Turbulence

  May 22, 2013 — When a solar flare erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics. Why? Now we ... > full story
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  Model of Sun's Magnetic Field Created

  May 22, 2013 — Researchers have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the ... > full story

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