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Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early Universe

NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe.
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Name that Space Telescope!

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Astronomy news // 11 February, 2008 09:02:05
 Would you like to name the next great space telescope? Here's your chance:

Light echoes whisper the distance to a star

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Astronomy news // 10 February, 2008 09:02:45
 Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes one of the first steps in the cosmic distance ladder.

Light echoes whisper the distance to a star

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Astronomy news // 10 February, 2008 09:02:45
 Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes one of the first steps in the cosmic distance ladder.

ESA presents Mars in 3D

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Astronomy news // 05 February, 2008 10:02:32
 Mars is about to come into 3D focus as never before, thanks to the data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). A new high-resolution Digital Terrain Model data set that is about to be released onto the Internet, will allow researchers to obtain new information about the Red Planet in 3D.

Journey to Saturn From Your Computer

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Astronomy news // 03 February, 2008 09:02:20
 Want a peek at Saturn as seen from space? The Cassini at Saturn Interactive Explorer makes the real Cassini mission data fully available in three colorful, easy-to-use expeditions.

Mercury Flyby Sets Stage for New Discoveries

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Astronomy news // 21 January, 2008 09:01:18
 "Discoveries are at hand!" That's what members of the MESSENGER science team are saying after their spacecraft flew past Mercury on Jan. 14th at a distance of only 124 miles. The historic flyby netted 500 megabytes of data (now safely downloaded to Earth) and more than 1200 photos covering nearly six million square miles of previously unseen terrain.

Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring

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Astronomy news // 09 January, 2008 06:01:18
 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string.

Integral discovers the galaxy's antimatter cloud is lopsided

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Astronomy news // 09 January, 2008 09:01:16
 The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to the origin of the antimatter.

10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion

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Astronomy news // 28 December, 2007 03:12:57
 Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive stars.

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