Spitzer Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s…
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The Prevalence of Hot Jupiters
When the Space Age began, astronomers knew of exactly zero planets outside the solar system. What a difference 50 years makes. Modern, ground-based telescopes and NASA’s…
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One of the Strongest Magenetic Fields in the Universe Found on Mysterious Magentar
Scientists using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered that a curious dead star has been hiding one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe all…
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Source of Magellanic Stream Identified by Hubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway…
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Newborn Star Revealed by Light Reflected Onto Plumes of Dark Cloud
The mysterious, almost mystical bright light emerging from these thick, ominous clouds is actually a telltale sign of forming stars. Here, a very young star is…
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Galaxy Evolution Puzzle Cracked With the Help of the Hubble Space Telescope
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution. For years, scientists have wondered why galaxies that have…
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Most Centaurs Appear to Be Comets
The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they…
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Could There Be Hope in Getting the Kepler Space Telescope Working Again?
On Wednesday (July 24), some cautiously optimistic news from the team attempting to recover NASA’s stricken Kepler space telescope was announced. The recovery effort, which began…
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Comet ISON Imaged by Hubble Space Telescope
Across the world, children fall asleep under the faint light from glow-in-the-dark astronomy stickers. Though undeniably adorable, these ceiling planetariums are too jam-packed to be realistic. You’d…
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New Moon Discovered Orbiting Neptune
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. The moon,…
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