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Shuttle Launch Date Pushed Back To July |
| The first space shuttle to launch since the Columbia disaster in February 2003 will have to wait another two months - New Scientist |
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Magnified Quasars Confirm Einstein |
| A new analysis of deep-space images lends the strongest support yet to the idea of "cosmic magnification," a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity 90 years ago, but testable only with 21st-century imaging tools and computerized data-processing techniques - Astronomy |
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Cassini Scoops Complex Organics In Titan Flyby |
| The Cassini spacecraft has flown through the upper atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon, Titan, and detected a huge number of complex organic chemicals - New Scientist |
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Cassini Finds Particles Near Saturn's Moon Enceladus |
| The Cassini spacecraft has discovered intriguing dust particles around Saturn's moon Enceladus. The particles might indicate the existence of a dust cloud around Enceladus,
or they may have originated from Saturn's outermost ring, the E-ring - NASA/JPL |
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Scientists Confirm Earth's Energy Is Out Of Balance |
| Scientists have concluded more energy is being absorbed from the sun than is emitted back to space, throwing the Earth's energy "out of balance" and warming the globe - NASA |
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Astronomers See Neutron Stars' Hot Spots |
| Scientists have, for the first time, spied moving hot spots on the surfaces of neutron stars more than 500 light-years away from Earth - Scientific American |
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NASA'S Deep Impact Spacecraft Spots Its Quarry, Stalking Begins |
| Sixty-nine days before it gets up-close-and-personal with a comet, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft successfully photographed its quarry, comet Tempel 1, at a distance
of 39.7 million miles - NASA |
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Star Reaches Out To White Dwarf |
| Researchers have snapped a picture that catches a star in the act of capturing material from its companion. The image shows a bridge of gas streaming from a red giant, called Mira A, towards a nearby collapsed white dwarf, called Mira B - Nature |
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Cassini Captures Swiss-Cheese Look Of Saturn Moon |
| An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus was captured by the Cassini spacecraft in the closest view ever taken of the pockmarked body - NASA/JPL |
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Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Spectacular New Images |
| NASA released new views today [Apr. 25] of two of the most well-known objects Hubble has ever observed: the Whirlpool Galaxy (spiral galaxy M51) and the Eagle Nebula - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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