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Telescopes Record New Babies on Orion

Telescopes  Record New Babies on Orion

This magnificent picture is a composite of infrared and visible-light images taken from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and shows stars being created 1,500 light-years away from Earth in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula. The Orion nebula ...

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NASA to Keep Ailing Hubble Alive

NASA to Keep Ailing Hubble Alive

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced yesterday (10.31.06) that Shuttle astronauts will make one final house-call to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory’s capabilities through the year 2013. This decision was ...

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Hubble Captures Merging Galaxies

Hubble Captures Merging Galaxies

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae Galaxies, named for their antenna- or tail-like appendages, is the sharpest yet of this merging spiral pair. Billions of stars will be formed during the course of the collision. One ...

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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets (an Illustration picture) – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a ...

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