Star Clusters on a Collision Course Caught by Hubble
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The…
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Space Bugs for Blood Testing
Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get…
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Stars Are Forming in the Phoenix Cluster at the Highest Rate Ever Observed
Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix…
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Curiosity Rover Color Photo Taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA’s rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 466: Monitoring of V380 Oph Requested in Support of HST Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 466 Monitoring of V380 Oph requested in support of HST observations August 13, 2012 On behalf of a large Hubble Space Telescope consortium…
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Perseid Meteors to Peak Tonight
The Perseids are the best-known of the year’s meteor showers, and are usually the most popular as the nights do not get as cold as the…
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Curiosity Sends Back a Color 360-Degree Panorama of Gale Crater
The first images from Curiosity’s color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The 130 low-resolution…
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Apollo 15 Astronauts’ Careers Ruined by Postage Stamps
Little things can sometimes have big and damaging effects on a mission. In the case of Apollo 15, the “little things with big consequences” were… postage…
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Remarkable image sets from NASA’s Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity’s landing and first days on Mars. Curiosity…
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Voyager 1 Approaches the Edge of Interstellar Space
Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the…
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