8 Feb 2010 at 12:00am The shuttle began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations.
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4 Feb 2010 at 12:00am Maps of the cosmic microwave background depend on measuring minute differences in the temperature of the sky.
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4 Feb 2010 at 12:00am Pluto has become significantly redder, while its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter.
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3 Feb 2010 at 12:00am NGC 3603 is a starburst region — a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula's extended clouds of gas and dust.
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3 Feb 2010 at 12:00am In mid-February, asteroid 4 Vesta will brighten to magnitude 6.1, making it barely visible to a sharp eye under a dark sky. Astronomy magazine has all the tools you need to get the most of this great observing opportunity.
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3 Feb 2010 at 12:00am The Red Planet's Sirenum Fossae region extends for more than 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) to the southwest of the Tharsis volcanic region, which contains Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in our solar system.
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3 Feb 2010 at 12:00am A relatively small Earth-based telescope identified an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet nearly 63 light-years away.
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2 Feb 2010 at 5:27pm A mysterious X-shaped pattern of space debris seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was probably two asteroids that collided, scientists said Tuesday.
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2 Feb 2010 at 12:00am The president's goal is to eventually make commercially provided services the primary mode of travel for astronauts.
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2 Feb 2010 at 12:00am With its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA will probe the Sun in greater detail than ever before and, with luck, begin to answer some of its biggest mysteries.
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