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Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision
The cataclysmic history of a giant galaxy is on display in a new image that combines infrared and X-ray observations.
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12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught In Act
A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14.
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Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower.
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NASA Announces 2012 Carl Sagan Fellows
NASA has announced the 2012 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in the area of exoplanet research.
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NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star
The last exhalations of a dying star can be seen in a new image from NASA's SOFIA telescope.
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Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturnian moons.
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'Mount Sharp' on Mars Links Geology's Past and Future
A stack of geological chapters in the history book of Mars has attracted NASA's big new rover and takes an informal name from a geologist with early Mars missions.
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Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show.
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Mars-Bound NASA Craft Adjusts Path, Tests Instruments
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path today for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August.
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Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly about 46 miles (74 kilometers) above the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus.
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NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day
Premiering on New York's Times Square today to mark World Water Day: a new visualization of global groundwater depletion created using data from NASA's GRACE mission.
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NASA's 'Eyes on the Earth' Gets Sharper Vision
NASA's Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has introduced a new version of its "Eyes on the Earth" interactive virtual reality visualization.
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NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera.
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Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Students and Robots Take to the Courts in Competition
Student teams from California, Nevada, Brazil and Chile competed in the 21st annual Los Angeles regional FIRST competition this past weekend.
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NASA's New 'Earth Now' App: Your World, Unplugged
A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands.
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Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Resumes Operations
Cassini mission managers have received confirmation that the plasma spectrometer instrument was successfully turned on.
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Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
Direct observations linking the tidal pull of Saturn to jets on Enceladus are among highlights of NASA's Cassini mission discussed at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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At 10, GRACE Continues Defying, and Defining, Gravity
A decade after launch, NASA's GRACE space twins continue their orbital waltz, producing amazing science.
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Launch of NASA's NuSTAR Mission Postponed
The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting.