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Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Object
11.15.12 - With Hubble and Spitzer and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy seen in the universe.
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Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud
11.14.12 - New stars can be seen bubbling up around the remains of a dramatic stellar explosion in this new portrait from two space telescopes.
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Kepler Completes Prime Mission, Begins Extended Mission
11.14.2012 - Today NASA marks two milestones in the search for planets like Earth.
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Hubble Spots a Colorful Lenticular Galaxy
11.09.12 - Hubble captured a beautiful galaxy in a period of transition from life as a spiral galaxy to a less defined elliptical galaxy. As a lenticular galaxy, NGC 5010 has features of both spirals and ellipticals.
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Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars
11.02.12 - Hubble peered deep into the center of globular cluster NGC 6362, which contains a high concentration of stars with different colors.
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'Just Right' Asteroid Belts May Be Life-Friendly
11.01.12 - Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they depend on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass.
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Fermi Measures Ancient Starlight's Cosmic 'Fog'
11.01.12 - Fermi has helped make the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe, establishing the total amount that has ever shone.
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Hubble Sees Violent Star Formation Episodes in Dwarf Galaxies
10.26.12 - NGC 3738, a starburst galaxy, is in the midst of a violent episode of star formation: converting reservoirs of hydrogen gas into stars.
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NASA Scientists Among 'Most Influential in Space': TIME Magazine
10.25.12 - A cosmic chemist, an observational cosmologist, and a "gamma-ray argonaut" working at three NASA research centers are among "the most influential people in space," according to a special issue of TIME magazine published this month.
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Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead'
10.25.12 - A second look at Hubble data is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet.