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Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in our Galaxy
06.02.08 - More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy.
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Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms go Missing
06.02.08 - For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like.
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Scientists Hold Seance for Supernova
05.29.08 - Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago.
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Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star
05.28.08 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens.
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Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere
04.10.08 - Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow
03.13.08 - Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there.
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Many Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets
02.17.08 - Astronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy.
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Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early Universe
02.12.08 - NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages."
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NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille
01.15.08 - NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
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Even Thin Galaxies Can Grow Fat Black Holes
01.10.08 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies.
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10,000 Earths' Worth of Dust Found in Star Explosion
12.20.07 - Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust was forged in the explosions of massive stars.
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Embryonic Star Captured With Jets Flaring
11.29.07 - A developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Astronomers Say Moons Like Ours Are Uncommon
11.20.07 - The next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might count yourself lucky.
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Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!
10.25.07 - Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
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NASA Space Telescopes Find 'Lego-Block' Galaxies in Early Universe
09.06.07 - 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.
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Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' on Star System
08.29.07 - 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.
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NASA's Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup
08.06.07 - Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed.
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Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet
07.11.07 - A scorching-hot gas planet beyond our solar system is steaming up with water vapor, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Spitzer Gives Scientists Depth Perception
05.30.07 - Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA Finds Hot Planet, Makes Exoplanet Weather Map
05.09.07 - Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds.