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Mars Rover Endures 'Deep Sleep' With No Harm |
| NASA's Mars rover Opportunity endured a martian winter night despite being put into a new energy-saving but risky "deep sleep" mode, a mission flight director said Friday - CNN.com |
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Russian Progress Cargo Ship Docks With ISS |
| A Progress cargo ship carrying supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) successfully docked with the orbiter station Thursday - SpaceDaily |
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Telescope Spies 'Youngest' Planet |
| Nasa's Spitzer telescope has found evidence around a distant star for a planet that may be less than one million years old - BBC NEWS |
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Universe 156 Billion Light-Years Wide |
| If you've ever wondered how big the universe is, you're not alone. Astronomers have long pondered this, too, and they've had a hard time figuring it out. Now an estimate has been made, and it's a whopper - CNN.com |
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Venus Clouds 'Might Harbour Life' |
| There could be life on the planet Venus, US scientists have concluded in a report in the journal Astrobiology - BBC NEWS |
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Cassini Sees Pandora And Prometheus Moons Of Saturn |
| Two of Saturn's moons are seen in the image shepherding the planet's narrow F-ring - Spaceflight Now |
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Brightest Objects Are Humdrum Galaxies |
| A new study of very bright and ancient celestial objects called quasars finds that they are associated with fairly normal galaxies, surprising some astronomers - Space.com |
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Rosetta Probe Passes First Tests |
| Europe's comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta has successfully completed its first scientific task: observation of Comet C/2002 T7, or Comet Linear - BBC NEWS |
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Missing Black Holes Found |
| European researchers have found 30 previously hidden supermassive black holes anchoring faraway galaxies, which suggests there at least twice as many of the colossal
gravity wells as thought - Space.com |
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Spacecraft Rerouted To Fly By Saturn Moon |
| The Cassini spacecraft successfully altered its course to set up a June 11 flyby of Saturn's outermost moon, Phoebe, en route to the ringed planet, NASA said Friday - CNN.com |
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