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  NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrument

  April 8, 2013 — Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos. They shine even though they're technically dead, occasionally feeding on neighboring stars if they venture too close. Interestingly, these ... > full story
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  NASA's SORCE Satellite Marks a Decade in the Sun

  April 2, 2013 — NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has been providing data on the sun's irradiance for 10 years. SORCE measures electromagnetic radiation produced by the sun and the ... > full story
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  NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON

  March 29, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this ... > full story
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  Saturn Is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests; Moons and Rings Date Back to Solar System's Birth

  March 27, 2013 — A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth. Though they are tinted on ... > full story
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  Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

  March 26, 2013 — When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrument built and tested by a team at NASA's ... > full story
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  Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April

  March 20, 2013 — The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. Mars will be passing almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective. ... > full story
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  Voyager 1 Has Entered a New Region of Space, Sudden Changes in Cosmic Rays Indicate

  March 20, 2013 — Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new ... > full story
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  New Curiosity 'Safe Mode' Status Expected to Be Brief

  March 18, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is expected to resume science investigations in a few days, as engineers quickly diagnosed a software issue that prompted the rover to put itself into a precautionary ... > full story
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  Leaping Lunar Dust: Electrically Charged Dust Near Shadowed Craters Can Get Lofted Above Moon's Surface

  March 18, 2013 — Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... > full story
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  Distant Planetary System Is a Super-Sized Solar System

  March 14, 2013 — Astronomers have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our Solar System. A spectrum reveals that the carbon to oxygen ratio is consistent with the ... > full story

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