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More Signs Of Water Found On Mars |
| A Mars rover has found further evidence that water once existed on the red planet, the US space agency Nasa says - BBC NEWS |
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Spirit, Opportunity Roll To New Sites |
| The Mars rovers moved toward new rocks to drill on Saturday, a day after the Spirit rover found geological evidence that the dusty Red Planet had a wet past - HoustonChronicle.com |
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Mars Atmosphere Discovery |
| Astronomers have detected hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time. This is the first time that a chemical catalyst of this sort has been found in a planetary atmosphere other than the Earth's - Spaceflight Now |
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Most Distant Galaxy Discovered |
| Pushing back the boundaries of space observation, French and Swiss astronomers say they have detected the farthest galaxy ever seen - CNN.com |
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Enigmatic X-rays May Point To New Class Of Black Holes |
| Mysterious, powerful X-ray sources found in nearby galaxies may represent a new class of objects, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory - Spaceflight Now |
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Peering Into The First Moments After The Big Bang |
| British astronomers have used a radio telescope called the Very Small Array to probe the cosmic background radiation; an afterglow from the Big Bang that gives insights into the
rapid expansion of the early Universe - Universe Today |
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Rosetta Begins Its 10-year Journey To The Origins Of The Solar System |
| Europe’s Rosetta cometary probe has been successfully launched into an orbit around the Sun, which will allow it to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 after three flybys of the Earth and one of Mars - ESA
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Black Holes: Fuzzy Tangles Of Strings? |
| Black holes may not be the smooth, featureless gravitational gluttons long thought to completely devour any matter or information that strays too close - CNN.com |
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Adaptive Optics Reveal Massive Star Formation |
| Astronomers at UC Berkeley took advantage of the newly installed adaptive optics system at the Lick Observatory to get clear images of a massive star forming region - Universe Today |
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No 'Showstoppers' For Humans On Mars |
| Experts in the effects of space travel on the human body told a presidential commission on Wednesday that there were challenges but no "showstoppers" in building a permanent moon
base, then sending astronauts to Mars - CNN.com |
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