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Unexpected Detail In First-Ever Venus South Pole Images |
| ESA's Venus Express has returned the first-ever images of the hothouse planet’s south pole from a distance of 206 452 kilometres, showing surprisingly clear structures and
unexpected detail - ESA |
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Hubble Finds That The 'Tenth Planet' Is Slightly Larger Than Pluto |
| NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the "tenth planet," nicknamed "Xena," for the first time and has found that it is only just a little larger than Pluto - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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NASA Mars Rovers Head For New Sites After Studying Layers |
| NASA's Mars rover Spirit has reached a safe site for the Martian winter, while its twin, Opportunity, is making fast progress toward a destination of its own
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Mars Cameras Debut As NASA Craft Adjusts Orbit |
| Researchers today [Apr. 13th] released the first Mars images from two of the three science cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - NASA |
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Hybrid Comet-Asteroid In Mysterious Break-Up |
| New images reveal something substantial has broken off an icy 50-kilometre object beyond the orbit of Saturn – it could have blown up or been hit - New Scientist |
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Saturn's Moon Prometheus Borrows Material From The Planet's Faint F Ring |
| New high-resolution photos beamed back from the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn are revealing even stranger structures never before seen in any planetary ring - Astronomy |
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Exploding 'Star Within A Star' |
| On 12 February 2006, amateur astronomers reported that a faint star in the constellation of Ophiuchus had suddenly become clearly visible in the night sky without the aid of a telescope
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'Standard' Star Not So Standard After All |
| Vega, the second brightest star in the northern sky, is much more complex than once thought - the star is widely used to calibrate other stars
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Dark matter hides in starless galaxies |
| Dark galaxies don't contain many bright stars, so most won't be found using optical telescopes. However, an abundance of neutral-hydrogen gas alerts radio astronomers to these galaxies' presence - Astronomy |
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Jupiter's Aurora Feels Europa's Light Touch |
| Astronomers detect a bright spot with a trailing tail in the gas giant's aurora, caused by an enigmatic electromagnetic link to its moon, Europa - New Scientist |
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