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NASA Satellite Glimpses Universe's First Trillionth Of A Second |
| Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence to support the concept that the universe expanded many trillion times its size in less than a trillionth of a second at the outset of the big bang - NASA |
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Astronomers Measure Precise Mass Of A Binary Brown Dwarf |
| For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in weighing a binary pair of brown dwarfs and precisely measuring their diameters. These kinds of exact measurements are not possible when observing a single brown dwarf - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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NASA's Stardust Findings May Alter View Of Comet Formation |
| Samples from comet Wild 2 have surprised scientists, indicating the formation of at least some comets may have included materials ejected by the early sun to the far reaches of the solar system - NASA |
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'Naked Super-Earth' Revealed By Microlensing |
| A chilly “super-Earth” has been spotted in the outskirts of a planetary system 9000 light years away. It is the second known planet of its kind, and suggests these cool worlds are astonishingly common - New Scientist |
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Astronomers Report Unprecedented Double Helix Nebula Near Center Of The Milky Way |
| Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope - University of California Los Angeles |
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Martian Ice: Wide And Deep |
| Mars Express's onboard radar sounder has spotted vast "glaciers" of ice under the Red Planet's surface - Sky and Telescope |
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Detective Cassini Atrikes Again |
| Evidence from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests Neptune's Triton may not be the only satellite with cryovolcanism. Saturn's moon Titan may be cryovlocanic as well - Astronomy |
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Integral Catches Stellar 'Corpses' By The Tail |
| Tiny stellar 'corpses' have been caught blasting surprisingly powerful X-rays and gamma rays across our galaxy by ESA’s gamma-ray observatory Integral - ESA |
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Galaxy On Fire! NASA's Spitzer Reveals Stellar Smoke |
| Where there's smoke, there's fire - even in outer space. A new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a burning hot galaxy whose fiery stars appear to be blowing out giant billows of smoky dust - NASA/JPL |
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Moonquakes |
| NASA astronauts are going back to the moon and when they get there they may need quake-proof housing. The moon is shaking with "shallow moonquakes" that researchers don't fully understand - Science @ NASA |
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