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Astronomers Find Cosmic Lenses with Feeding Black Holes
Observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal several galaxies containing feeding black holes, called quasars, which are distorting the appearance of galaxies behind them.
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Student-designed Robots Take on March Madness
Sixty-six high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
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Cassini Garners Top Honor From Air and Space Museum
NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has received the top group honor from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum - the Trophy for Current Achievement. Representatives for Cassini will receive the trophy on March 21 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C.
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NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky
NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere.
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Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
Saturn's moon Rhea appears in glorious detail in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
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NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing Postponed
The Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been postponed.
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NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR Mission
NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss the upcoming launch of an innovative X-ray telescope called NuSTAR.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Wins Aviation Week Award
NASA's Kepler mission has been named the winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category.
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JPL Celebrates Women in Space Exploration
In honor of Women's History Month, JPL is hosting an event on March 8 to recognize the success of women in science and engineering.
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NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action
A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in a new image from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Data
NASA's GRAIL twins have begun their science collection phase in lunar orbit.
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Santa Monica High Tops Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl
For the second straight year, Santa Monica High School beat longtime rival Arcadia High School to retain its title of Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl champions.
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers
Community college students team up with NASA for a chance to design robotic rovers through the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program.
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Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone
NuSTAR is being encapsulated in its rocket nose cone, or fairing, that will protect it during launch, scheduled for no earlier than March 21.
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Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione, confirming the presence of a tenuous atmosphere.
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Camera on NASA Mars Odyssey Tops Decade of Discovery
NASA's Mars Odyssey, the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, has now been sending home images for 10 years.
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NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants
A NASA-led study finds Arctic sea ice loss may be intensifying release of bromine into the atmosphere, depleting ground-level ozone and depositing toxic mercury in the Arctic.
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Asteroid 2011 AG5 - A Reality Check
Asteroid 2011 AG5 has been receiving a lot of attention lately because of a very unlikely scenario which would place it on an Earth-interception course 28 years from now.
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Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.