NASA Mission Finds Link Between Big and Small Stellar Blasts
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Proof that certain double star systems can erupt in full-blown explosions and then continue to flare up with smaller bursts has been spotted by the ultraviolet eyes of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers report.
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A new space observatory has been launched to hunt down and study the most powerful explosions seen in the Universe since the Big Bang itself.
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A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere&#x2014;thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars&#x2014;has left astronomers baffled.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 20  - NASA launched Saturday its Swift satellite, which will track huge explosions of gamma rays, the US space agency said.
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Astronomers claim to have found the first firm evidence that cosmic rays can come from stars that have exploded, or supernova remnants.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a dusty disc of material around a very small "failed star" called a brown dwarf, raising the possibility that there may be miniature solar systems in which planets orbit objects not much larger than planets, scientists said Monday.
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Astronomers say they have captured a stellar explosion - or supernova - unfolding in real time.
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A new spacecraft is being readied to make the fastest, most detailed study yet of the fleeting gamma ray bursts emanating from deep in space.
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NASA's new Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, scheduled for completion in May, could help scientists learn more about the mysterious gamma rays generated in "staggeringly distant" galaxies.
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By MICHAEL STROH The Baltimore Sun  Amateurs scan motes of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.   BALTIMORE -- By day, Martin Courtney pounds out reports for a government contractor.
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US astronomers find the smallest worlds detected circling other stars and say it is a breakthrough in the search for life in space.
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A Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the northern lights blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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PASADENA, Calif. - An orbiting NASA telescope that scans the heavens for ultraviolet light sources has found evidence of massive &quot;baby&quot; galaxies that runs counter to a belief that the aging universe is now only forming small new galaxies.
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Holy belching quasars, Batman NASA astronomers think they have identified a pair of supermassive black holes, or quasars, that look like they are teetering on the brink of huge explosions.â¦
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PASADENA -- An orbiting NASA telescope that scans the heavens has found evidence of massive &quot;baby&quot; galaxies that runs counter to a belief that only small new galaxies are being formed by the aging universe.
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The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.