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Mars Rovers Survive Dust Storms

Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission.
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Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe

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Astronomy news // 06 September, 2007 10:09:21
 NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe. Blazing with the brilliance of millions of stars, each of the newly discovered galaxies is a hundred to a thousand times smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy.

Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' On Young Star System

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Astronomy news // 02 September, 2007 09:09:48
 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the water vapor is pouring down from the system's natal cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets are thought to form.

Method pioneered for probing exotic matter

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Astronomy news // 27 August, 2007 07:08:21
 Astronomers using XMM-Newton and Suzaku have seen Einstein's predicted distortion of space-time and pioneered a ground-breaking technique for determining the properties of neutron stars.

Hubble Camera Snags Rare View of Uranus Rings

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Astronomy news // 23 August, 2007 07:08:38
 A rare image of the ring system of the planet Uranus has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, using the onboard JPL-built and designed Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.

Hubble Teams with Google to Bring the Cosmos Down to Earth

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Astronomy news // 22 August, 2007 08:08:03
 Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google Earth.

Hinode helps unravel long-standing solar mysteries

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Astronomy news // 21 August, 2007 07:08:28
 A year after launch, scientists working with Hinode, a Japanese mission with ESA participation, are meeting at Trinity College, Dublin, to discuss latest findings on solar mysteries - including new insights on solar flares and coronal heating.

Scientists are a step closer to understanding sunshine

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Astronomy news // 20 August, 2007 06:08:40
 A monumental experiment buried deep beneath the mountains of Italy has provided Princeton physicists with a clearer understanding of the sun's heart -- and of a mysterious class of subatomic particles born there.

Do Supermassive Black Holes Stunt Stellar Birth in Galaxies?

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Astronomy news // 19 August, 2007 07:08:52
 New evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that supermassive black holes at the centers of elliptical galaxies keep the galactic "thermostat" so high gas cannot cool, stunting the birth of new stars.

Speeding-Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky

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Astronomy news // 15 August, 2007 07:08:48
 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. The star, named Mira after the Latin word for "wonderful," has been a favorite of astronomers for about 400 years. It is a fast-moving, older star called a red giant that sheds massive amounts of surface material.

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