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Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic Center
06.10.09 - Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA's Spitzer Begins Warm Mission
05.15.09 - After more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos, Spitzer has run out of the coolant that kept its infrared instruments chilled.
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Spitzer Catches Star Cooking up Comet Crystals
05.13.09 - Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets.
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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career
05.06.09 - The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye.
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If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with a Telescope
05.04.09 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years.
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Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?
04.30.09 - This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, located about 46 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals
04.07.09 - Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars?
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NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'
04.02.09 - A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run.
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Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train Wreck
03.16.09 - A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun.
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Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth
01.05.09 - Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars.
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Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar Bulbs
12.10.08 - It's a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin "failed" stars, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun.
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Hubble Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet
12.09.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
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Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space Image
12.08.08 - A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material.
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Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients
11.11.08 - Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts
10.27.08 - New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts.
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Splashy Portrait Helps Explain How Stars Form
10.08.08 - Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, star-forming region.
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Generations of Stars Pose for Family Portrait
08.22.08 - A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history.
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Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
07.21.08 - The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New Competition
07.15.08 - A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," it blazes with the light of an estimated 3.2 million suns.
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Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant Universe
07.10.08 - Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.