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NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets
04.04.11 - Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are experiencing a time delay: knots of gas and dust from one jet blast off four-and-a-half years later than identical knots from the other jet.
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Spitzer Captures Infrared Rays From a Sunflower
03.03.11 - A galactic sunflower shows off its infrared colors in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula
02.10.11 - Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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NASA Telescopes Help Find Most Distant Galaxy Cluster
01.12.11 - Astronomers have discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the distant universe.
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Cosmology Standard Candle not so Standard After All
01.12.11 - Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once thought.
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NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet
12.08.10 - Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon.
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Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies
11.24.10 - Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting two massive islands of galaxies.
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Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer Telescope
10.27.10 - Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space.
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Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an Exoplanet
10.19.10 - Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place.
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Giant Star Goes Supernova, Smothered by its Own Dust
10.12.10 - A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang.
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Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star Birth
09.23.10 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data reveal a newly found phenomenon that offers insight into cores of star-forming regions.
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Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids
09.02.10 - New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions.
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Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars
08.23.10 - Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Galaxies' Glory Days Revealed
08.18.10 - Astronomers have experienced the galactic equivalent of discovering pictures of a mild-mannered grandmother partying as a wild youth.
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NASA's Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle
08.05.10 - A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories.
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NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space
07.22.10 - Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time.
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Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive Star
07.14.10 - A new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born -- and hints at the possibility that planets could form around the galaxy's biggest bodies.
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The Coolest Stars Come Out of the Dark
06.24.10 - Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe.
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Astronomers Discover New Star-Forming Regions
05.26.10 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and radio telescopes are probing the structure of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Two Peas in an Irregular Pod
05.20.10 - Our sun may be an only child, but most of the stars in the galaxy are actually twins. The sibling stars circle around each other at varying distances, bound by the hands of gravity.