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1. Extreme Close-Up of the Face on Mars

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   The 'face' on Mars, a popular landform in Cydonia Region on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Here's a picture you probably won't see in the tabloid racks while waiting in line at ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010

2. Fractured

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   ... along the fracture, or both. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

3. Latest Look at Mercury Reveals Surprises

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   Enhanced color image of Caloris Basin on Mercury. Credit: Image produced by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Arizona State University/Carnegie Institution of Washington. Image reproduced ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

4. Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast

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   ... Penn State University and the lead scientist for Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT). (...) Read the rest of Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast (141 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

5. Big or Small, All Stars Form the Same Way

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   ...  Since massive stars tend to be quite far away and usually are surrounded by a shroud of dust, they are difficult to observe, said Stefan Kraus from the University of Michigan. But Kraus and his team ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

6. Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Star Formation

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   A colorful star-forming region in NGC 2467. Credit: NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University) OK, that headline doesn't rhyme, but this incredible new Hubble image looks like a witch's ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

7. Celestial Fireworks

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   ... lab for studying such distant and momentous events. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities ... Monday, 05 July 2010

8. Finding the Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars

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   Simulation showing a Milky Way-like galaxy around five billion years ago, when most satellite galaxy collisions were happening. Credit: Andrew Cooper, John Helly (Durham University) From the Royal Astronomical ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

9. Zapping Titan-Like Atmosphere with UV Creates Life Precursors

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   ... the scene as it might appear to human eyes. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) From the University of Arizona The first experimental evidence showing how atmospheric nitrogen can be incorporated ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

10. Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth

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    EPOXI mission patch. Credit: University of Maryland The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June 27, 2010, getting a gravity assist to help propel the spacecraft ... Friday, 25 June 2010

11. Rachmaninoff on Mercury

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    ... flybyin January 2008. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

12. Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino

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    ... looking at the Sloan data on galaxies, PhD student Shawn Thomas and his advisers at University College London put the mass of a neutrino at no greater than 0.28 electron volts, which is less than a billionth ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

13. Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

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    ... km per hour. "It's definitely not a place for the faint-hearted," said Ignas Snellen, from Leiden University, in the Netherlands who led a team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

14. Best Class Project Ever: 7th Graders Find a Cave on Mars

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    ... University, which takes advantage of the huge database of images taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The students found the skylight pit on the slope of an equatorial volcano named Pavonis Mons, and ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

15. Astronomers Witness Star Birth

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    ... University and lead author of a new paper. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

16. Very Clever! LRO Views Huge Lava Tube Skylight in Mare Ingenii

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    ... Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Is this a window into the interior of the Moon, and an entrance to a potential future lunar habitat? The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken a closer ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

17. Hubble Delves into Two Recent Jupiter Mysteries

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    Detailed observations made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have led researchers to believe that the flash of light seen on Jupiter on 3 June was a meteor. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. H. Wong (University ... Wednesday, 16 June 2010

18. Vast Oceans Likely Covered One Third of Mars

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    n illustration of what Mars might have looked like some 3.5 billion years ago when an ocean likely covered one-third of the planet’s surface, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. ... Monday, 14 June 2010

19. Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets

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    ...  "Each of these planets is interesting in its own right, but what is really fascinating is how diverse they are," said co-investigator Dr Suzanne Aigrain from Oxford University’s Department of ... Monday, 14 June 2010

20. Water Could Be Widespread in Moon's Interior

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    ... to detect," said team member Bradley Jolliff of Washington University in St. Louis. "We can now finally begin to consider the implications—and the origin—of water in the interior of the Moon." ... Monday, 14 June 2010