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  • Artist's conception of a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star.

    Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door

    02.06.2013 - Astronomers estimate that six percent of red dwarfs have a temperate Earth-size planet, as close as 13 light-years away.

  • Dazzlingly complex galaxy with a golden, glowing center, blue-white spirals, sporadic pink blossoms of stars, dark filament lanes and rust-red streaks cutting across the spirals

    A Cosmological Masterpiece

    02.05.13 - Renowned astro-photographer Robert Gendler combined Hubble archive data with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.

  • Engineers work on the center section of the backplane support structure that will hold Webb's mirror segments.

    2012: The Webb Telescope's Big Year of Progress

    02.05.13 - The James Webb Space Telescope marked another year of significant progress in 2012 as flight instrumentation was completed and delivered to NASA.

  • A ball of light, streaked with threads of dust and encircled by an outer bubble

    Hubble Catches the Moment the Lights Went Out

    02.01.13 - The galaxy in this image marks a transitional phase - a young star-forming galaxy settles down to become a massive, red and dead galaxy.

  • Webb telescope's tertiary mirror

    Video Brings Webb Telescope's 3rd Mirror to Light

    01.31.13 - A new video takes viewers behind the scenes for a special look at one of the many mirrors of the upcoming Webb telescope.

  • Artist's illustration shows a planetary disk (left) that weighs the equivalent of 50 Jupiter-mass planets

    Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star may be Making Planets

    01.30.13 - A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds.

  • Andromeda galaxy

    Cool, New Views of Andromeda Galaxy

    01.28.13 - Two new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess.

  • You see, it looks like a globular cluster, but it's not!

    Hubble Finds Appearances can be Deceptive

    01.25.13 - Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. This is not one of them.

  • vertical image of the massive atmospheric testing chamber imposed over a blurred horizontal version for visual effect. Lots of blue, white and steel

    NASA Readies Famous "Chamber A" to Welcome the James Webb Space Telescope

    01.23.13 - NASA's "Chamber A" thermal vacuum testing chamber has been upgraded and remodeled to accommodate testing the James Webb Space Telescope.

  • Hubble image of Large Magellanic Cloud portion

    Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud

    01.23.13 - Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud floats in space, in a long and slow dance around the Milky Way.

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