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NASA's Comet Tale Draws To A Successful Close In Utah Desert |
| NASA's Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down [on Jan. 15] at 2:10 a.m. Pacific time (3:10 a.m. Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range - NASA |
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Fast-Spinning Neutron Star Smashes Speed Limit |
| The newly-discovered star rotates 716 times per second – faster than some theories predict is possible – researchers may have to revise their models - New Scientist |
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There's More To The North Star Than Meets The Eye |
| By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris for the first time. This sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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New Milky Way Neighbor |
| Astronomers using a database of some 48 million stars have discovered a faint but huge stellar structure positioned almost directly above the Milky Way's disk. The most likely
interpretation, researchers say, is that this is a dwarf galaxy merging with our own - Astronomy |
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Vega Mystery Solved; Red Dwarf Mystery Grows |
| Astronomers have finally figured out the long-standing mystery of why Vega, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, is brighter than it ought to be - Sky and Telescope |
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Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers |
| An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies were not born big but grew over time through repeated galactic mergers - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Possible Comet Dust Around Dead Star |
| NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted what may be comet dust sprinkled around the white dwarf star G29-38 that died approximately 500 million years ago
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More Evidence That Black Holes Are For Real |
| A team of astronomers announced Monday compelling new evidence that black holes exist in nature, and are not just the concoction of theorists and science-fiction writers with overactive imaginations - Sky and Telescope |
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NASA's Chandra Finds Black Holes Stirring Up Galaxies |
| Black holes are creating havoc in unsuspected places, according to a new study of images of elliptical galaxies made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The discovery of
far-reaching explosive activity, due to giant central black holes in these old galaxies, was a surprise to astronomers - NASA |
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Searching For Interstellar Dust |
| Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have launched Stardust@home to enlist amateur astronomers in the hunt for specks of interstellar dust captured by NASA's
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