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'Ghost' Remains After Black Hole Eruption
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic "ghost" lurking around a distant supermassive black hole.
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NASA's Spitzer Begins Warm Mission
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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Herschel and Planck on Way to Study Our Cosmic Roots
The Herschel and Planck spacecraft successfully blasted into space on May 14 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
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Let the Planet Hunt Begin
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Unfolds by Animation
Animators have made the "unfolding" of the James Webb Space Telescope come to life in two new videos.
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Herschel and Planck Almost Ready for Liftoff
Two missions to study our cosmic roots, Herschel and Planck, are stacked atop the same Ariane 5 rocket, waiting to blast into space.
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Spitzer Catches Star Cooking up Comet Crystals
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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The Camera That Saved Hubble
The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse.
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JPL's Hubble Camera Will Return to Earth
The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera.
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Hubble to Receive James Webb Space Telescope Technology
New technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing mission.