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Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions
10.19.11 - Astronomers find a star with a companion as cool as Earth.
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Star's Dusty Disk May Host Planets
10.19.11 - Spiral arm-like structures in the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star may provide clues to the presence of as-yet-unseen planets.
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Ambitious Hubble Survey Obtaining New Dark Matter Census
10.13.11 - A Hubble survey of 25 galactic clusters reveals the most comprehensive data to date on the distribution dark matter by observing the visual distortion or lensing due to invisible matter in the clusters.
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Planets Found in Decade-Old Hubble Data
10.06.11 - A painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998 has uncovered two extrasolar planets that went undetected at the time.
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Space Observatory Gives Clues to Creation of Oceans
10.05.11 - Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans.
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NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth
09.29.11 - New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.
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Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole
09.29.11 - A fleet of spacecraft including the Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a black hole.
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NASA to Host News Conference on Asteroid Findings
09.26.11 - NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) on Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and implications for future research.
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NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Flaring Jet
09.20.11 - Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets.
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Kepler Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars
09.15.11 - A world with a double sunset that was first imagined in Star Wars over 30 years ago in a galaxy far, far away has become scientific reality.