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NASA selected a final destination for its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) after a journey of nearly 5.6 million miles (9.0 million kilometers) that included several orbits around Earth and the Moon. The mission team announced September 9 that Cabeus A will be the target crater for the LCROSS dual impacts scheduled for 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, 2009. The crater was

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The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colorful multi-wavelength pictures of far- flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie "pillar of creation," and a "butterfly" nebula. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"

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NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission will launch in August 2011. NuSTAR will carry the first high-energy X-ray focusing telescopes into orbit, providing a much deeper, clearer view of energetic phenomena such as black holes and supernova explosions than any previous instrument has provided in this region of the electromagnetic spectrum.&nbsp;

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It was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, since then Saturn's most massive moon, Titan, has been known as a place of mystery and intrigue. The large, cloud-enshrouded moon is such a scientific enigma that for the past five years, it has been targeted by NASAs Cassini spacecraft with more than 60 probing flybys. One of its latest findings could be a valuable asset to

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An international team of astronomers, including Queen's University physicist Larry Widrow, have uncovered evidence of a nearby cosmic encounter. Their study indicates that the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies, the two galaxies closest to our own, collided about two to three billion years ago. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"

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A new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals an edge-on galaxy much like our own Milky Way. &nbsp; <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope captured the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular kind of supernova in a few million years. These supernovae are used as beacons to measure cosmic distances and ultimately understand the expansion of our universe. ** Illustration of the white dwarf and its

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Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science fiction movies a team of scientists led by Dr David Kipping of University College London thinks that they may even find habitable 'exomoons,' too. **Artist's impression of a hypothetical exomoon in orbit

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Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter recorded these images from the month of April through early August of this year. The camera team

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University of Hawaii astronomer Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant black hole ever found. The galaxy, which is 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, is as large as the Milky Way galaxy and harbors a supermassive black hole that contains at least a billion times as much matter as does our Sun. ** False-color image of the QSO (CFHQSJ2329-301),

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A Collaboration among two U.S. and two Mexican research groups has begun to create the San Pedro Mártir Telescope, which will offer an unprecedented view of the infrared night sky. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman;

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The find, by an international team including the University of St Andrews, is so bizarre that odds on catching it at this late stage in its life were 1000-1. The 'huge new planet', found orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was discovered by the UK's WASP project, of which St Andrews is a founding member. Newly-christened WASP-18b, the planet is so massive and so close to its host star that

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This planet is about 4 billion miles Pluto and as much as 1.6 billion miles from the earth. It's a beautiful pale blue fuzzy ball and very different from the other planets, it's strikingly blue and almost featureless that it seems surreal and almost like it has been created by some CGI graphic designer. It has a diameter oh 31,763 miles which is 4 times that of the earth It takes 84 earth

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This is Uranus' sister planet and it is 3 billion miles away from the sun. After the exclusion Neptune is now the outer most planet in our solar system It was named for the Roman god of the seas Its 2.68 Million miles from Earth Its Diameter is 30,775 miles Its takes 168.4 Earth years to orbit the Sun I Day on Neptune is 16.1 Earth Hours Long Like all other outer planets Neptune rotates

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In comparison to the other planets in our solar system, Pluto has always been a bit different, much smaller than the rest and it has three moons, the largest moon is called Charon orbiting it in proportion to its size, Nix and Hydra the smaller and it also has the most inclined and eccentric orbit which is shaped like an egg which causes it to get closer to the sun at some point on the orbit and

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