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Europe Reaches New Frontier – Huygens Lands On Titan |
| Today [Jan. 14], after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe has successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and safely landed on its surface - ESA, NASA/JPL, Sky and Telescope |
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Deep Impact Launched And Flying Toward Date With A Comet |
| NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft began its 431 million kilometer (268 million mile) journey to comet Tempel 1 today [Jan. 12] at 1:47:08 p.m. EST - NASA/JPL |
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Astronomers Identify Largest Stars Known |
| Astronomers are announcing today the identification of three red supergiants that have the largest diameters of any normal stars known, more than a billion miles across - Lowell Observatory |
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Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home In On Suspected Extrasolar Planet |
| The Hubble Space Telescope's near-infrared vision is hot on the trail of a possible planetary companion to a relatively bright young brown dwarf located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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NASA Details Earthquake Effects On The Earth |
| NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the
North Pole by centimeters. The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation - NASA |
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New Clues Found In Ongoing Mystery Of Giant Galactic Blobs |
| Astronomers have numerous technical terms and numbering systems for describing the universe, but one type of mysterious object has yet to be classified. For now, these
oddities are named for their strange appearance. They are called blobs - Spitzer Science Center |
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Popping With Pulsars |
| Terzan 5, a massive, densely populated globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius contains a record number of quickly rotating "millisecond" pulsars, say astronomers who
discovered 21 new ones there - Astronomy |
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Spitzer Sees Dusty Aftermath Of Pluto-Sized Collision |
| Astronomers say a dusty disk swirling around the nearby star Vega is bigger than earlier thought. It was probably caused by collisions of objects, perhaps as big as the planet Pluto, up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter - Spitzer Science Center |
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Mars Rover Discovers A Potential Meteorite |
| NASA's rover Opportunity has spotted an unusual rock on Mars that may be a meteorite. The rover first glimpsed the rock two weeks ago as it approached the remains of its heat shield, which plummeted to Mars during the rover's descent through the atmosphere in January 2004. |
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Echoes Of Big Bang Found In Galaxies |
| Tiny fluctuations in the density of matter after the Big Bang are definitely reflected in the distribution of galaxies in our Universe, according to two research groups. The findings
confirm theories of how the Universe grew from being almost uniformly smooth to having dense clusters of stars and galaxies - Nature |
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