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New Sunspots Could Produce Space Storms |
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A new group of spots is traversing the face of the sun. Sunspot group 1045 is an active region that has produced moderate (M-class) solar flares.
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Hubble images site of possible asteroid collision |
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The mystery of a comet-like object circling among the main-belt asteroids has deepened, now that astronomers have slewed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) over for a close-up look.
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New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes |
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NASA today released the most detailed set of images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.
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Saturn mission 'extended again' |
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The US space agency Nasa has extended the international Cassini-Huygens mission once again. The unmanned Cassini-Huygens probe arrived at Saturn in 2004 on a mission that was meant to come to end in 2008.
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Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris |
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Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.
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Alien Dust Kicked Up By Baby Planet Collisions |
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In the search for other planetary systems like Earth that are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, scientists have come across some very alien systems indeed.
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NASA Moon Program Cut From White House Budget |
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President Obama's new plan for the space program will point NASA in a new direction, according to the Associated Press.
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