Contribute to the Study of the Cosmos Through Doing Citizen Science
Do you want to contribute to the study of the cosmos, but don’t have an astronomy degree or even a telescope? Well, here’s a solution for…
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Pluto’s Moons Need Names and That Honor Has Fallen to You!
Pluto may have been demoted, but its family is getting bigger and bigger. Now, two of the dwarf planet’s tiniest moons need names — but rather…
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Suspected Binary Protostar Behaves Like Police Strobe Light
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a police strobe…
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Elderly Star Giving Birth to Planets
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding…
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Planetary Resources Releases Asteroid Mining Update
This is a press release from Chris Lewicki, the President and Chief Asteroid Miner at Planetary Resources: In the accompanying video, you can see one of our…
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Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy Revealed by GALEX Mission
This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet (1,528 angstroms)…
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Herschel Images Asteroid Apophis Flyby – No Collision in 2029
ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory captured asteroid Apophis in its field of view during the approach to Earth on 5/6 January 2013. This image shows the asteroid…
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Vega Seems to Have Its Own Asteroid Belt
This artist’s concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. Evidence for this warm ring of debris was found using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope,…
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Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B Revealed by Hubble
Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic…
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Weather Patterns on a Brown Dwarf Star Spotted by Hubble and Spitzer
This artist’s conception illustrates the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026. NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes observed the object to learn more about its turbulent atmosphere. Brown…
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