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Mind-blowing Meteor Shower on Mars During Comet Flyby, Say NASA Scientists
"Thousands of meteors per hour would have been visible — truly astounding to the human eye." That's Nick Schneider's description…
A Comet’s Tale – Rosetta’s Philae, Five Days from Touchdown
In the recently released Rosetta short film called "Ambition", the master begins a story to his apprentice - "Once upon…
It’s Complicated: Hubble Survey Finds Unexpected Diversity in Dusty Discs Around Nearby Stars
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of the debris disks…
Curiosity Rover Sees a Pixel’s-Worth of Comet Siding Spring
When Comet Siding Spring skimmed just 84,500 miles from Mars last month, NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity Rovers - along with several…
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
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ALMA Shows Off Baby Pictures… Baby Planets, That Is!
In a test of its new high resolution capabilities, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is happily sharing some family…
Where Have All the Pulsars Gone? The Mystery at the Center of Our Galaxy
The galactic center is a happening place, with lots of gas, dust, stars, and surprising binary stars orbiting a supermassive black…
VLTI Detects Exozodiacal Light Around Exoplanets
If you've ever stood outside after twilight has passed, or a few hours before the sun rises at dawn, then…
Mysterious Object “G2” at Galactic Center is Actually Binary Star
A mysterious object swinging around the supermassive black hole in the center our galaxy has surprised astronomers by actually surviving…
Observing Challenge: Catch a Series of Mutual Eclipses by Jupiter’s Moons
Missing the planets this month? With Mars receding slowly to the west behind the Sun at dusk, the early evening…