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Egg Nebula's 'Searchlight' Beams
04.27.12 - This Hubble image of the Egg Nebula shows one of the best views to date of the brief but dramatic end phase in a star's life.
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NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust
04.26.12 - Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust.
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Webb Telescope Flight Backplane Section Complete
04.24.12 - The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed.
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split Personality
04.24.12 - While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both.
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Hubble Peeks inside a Stellar Cloud
04.20.12 - These bright stars shine through what looks like a haze in the night sky as part of a young stellar grouping in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Hubble's View of a Turbulent Star-Making Region
04.17.12 - Young stars are vying for attention in this image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the Tarantula Nebula.
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NASA's Swift Monitors Departing Comet Garradd
04.13.12 - Outbound comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) provided a nice show for skywatchers last year. Now, it's the target of an ongoing investigation.
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Hubble Sees Messier 70: Tight and Bright
04.13.12 - Having so many shining stars piled atop one another makes globular clusters a popular target for amateur skywatchers and scientists.
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Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
04.12.12 - New data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star Fomalhaut.
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NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
04.12.12 - Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).