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  • The entrance of the CIBER optics.

    NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe

    05.20.13 - Scientists seek to gain answers to questions about the formation of stars and galaxies with the launch of the CIBER sounding rocket on June 4 from Wallops.

  • A bright lens of galaxies in the center warps and distorts more distant galaxies like ripples in space

    Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass

    05.17.13 - This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. The matter condensed in such clusters is so high their gravity warps the fabric of spacetime.

  • Fluid shifts in the brain are just one of several spaceflight-induced changes researchers are interested in better understanding via the one-year increment planned for 2015 aboard the International Space Station. (NASA)

    The Joint US–Russian One-Year Mission

    05.16.13 - An international collaboration evaluates research protocols for candidate investigations during the planned American/Russian one year increment.

  • Galaxy Messier 94

    Galaxy's Ring of Fire

    05.16.13 - This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.

  • a small white spark in a cocoon of brightly-lit gasses

    Hubble Tells a Tale of Galactic Collisions

    05.10.13 - 2MASX is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy which emits a tremendous amount of light at infrared wavelengths. Scientists connect this to intense star formation.

  • Checking out the new FORTIS telescope

    Successful Launch of FORTIS on May 11

    05.13.13 - NASA successfully launched the Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

  • Spitzer telescope image

    NASA Develops Key to Cosmic Carbon's Evolution

    05.14.2013 - Scientists now have the capability to systematically investigate the molecular evolution of cosmic carbon.

  • artist's concept of a misshapen chunk of rock orbiting a star and its disk of dust

    Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted with Planet Debris

    05.09.13 - Hubble found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place – the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.

  • HR 8799 planets

    Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off Worlds

    05.09.13 - Researchers have begun taking infrared pictures of planets posing near their stars in family portraits.

  • This artist's concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy

    Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas

    05.07.13 - The supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up hot gas, according to a new study from the Herschel space observatory.

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