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NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time.
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Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide
Chandra studies the hot gas from a star being ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a black hole.
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Chandra Sees Remarkable Outburst From Old Black Hole
An extraordinary outburst by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes.
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NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust
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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NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split Personality
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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NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
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).
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NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions
NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck mission -- as a result of the 2012 Senior Review of Astrophysics Missions.
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NASA Releases New Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky
A new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth.
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Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way
Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.