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Hayabusa Mission In Jeopardy |
| The woes keep mounting for Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft, which is attempting to bring the first-ever sample of an asteroid back to Earth - Sky and Telescope, JAXA |
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Spiral Arm Of Milky Way Looms Closer Than Thought |
| A highly accurate technique using a vast array of radio telescopes shows that one of the galaxy's four main arms is twice as close to Earth as expected - New Scientist |
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Bursting Neutron Star Mystery |
| Astronomers have discovered an entire new population of neutron stars that gives off powerful but sporadic bursts of radio waves - Sky and Telescope |
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More Often Than Not, Massive Galaxies Form By Mergers |
| New data seem to show that galaxies collide all the time. In fact, the oldest and largest galaxies in the universe most likely formed from such intergalactic combinations - Scientific American |
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Moon Storms |
| Every lunar morning, when the sun first peeks over the dusty soil of the moon after two weeks of frigid lunar night, a strange storm stirs the surface - Science @ NASA |
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Laser Beams Message Between Satellites |
| The new communication technology could allow satellites in separate orbits to exchange huge amounts of information and relay that to the ground - New Scientist |
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Cassini's Photo Album From A Season Of Icy Moons |
| Wrapping up a phenomenally successful year of observing Saturn's icy moons, the Cassini mission is releasing a flood of new views of the moons Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Hyperion and Iapetus - NASA/JPL |
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STEREO Spacecraft To Image Solar Blasts In Glorious 3-D |
| The two craft will monitor coronal mass ejections from two different points and determine which are on a collision course with Earth - New Scientist |
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Europe Unites Over Space Budget |
| Two days of tense negotiations over Europe's spending on space have ended happily for the European Space Agency (ESA) - Nature |
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Space Weather Bulletins |
| An earthbound network of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that studies continental movement recently made a high-altitude discovery - Astronomy |
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