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Old Star Clusters Shed New Light on Starbirth
[/caption] Hovering about the galactic plane and locked in the embrace of a spiral galaxy's arms, open star clusters usually…
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Era of Space Shuttle Endeavour Ends with June 1 landing at the Kennedy Space Center
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew landed safely today at the Kennedy Space…
Bringing the Solar System Down to Earth
As a part of NASA's ongoing Year of the Solar System – which is actually a single Martian year long, or…
MOST… Cutting To The Heart Of A Wolf-Rayet Star
[/caption] In 1867, astronomers using the 40 cm Foucault telescope at the Paris Observatory, discovered three stars in the constellation…
Coming To A Theatre Near You… Extreme Neutron Stars!
[/caption] They came into existence violently... Born at the death of a massive star. They are composed almost entirely of…
Atlantis Goes Vertical for the Last Time
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – For the last time in history, Atlantis and the shuttle program have literally gone vertical.…
Voyager 1 Measures Magnetic Mayhem
[/caption] When Voyager 1 passed into the heliosheath in 2004, it became the first man-made object to explore the remote…
And The Moon Is Eclipsed By The Earth
[/caption] On June 15 there will be a total lunar eclipse visible from Australia, Indonesia, southern Japan, India, a…
Twisted Ring Of Gas Orbits Galactic Center
[/caption] The Herschel Space Observatory scanned the center of the galaxy in far-infrared and found a cool (in all senses…