Herschel Passes a New Milestone
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The heart of ESA's infrared space telescope, Herschel, has successfully completed a vital round of tests.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes, based in Spain, will peer into space for the first time.
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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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MAXINE McKEW: Well, what a day for science - a discovery that&#39;s been hailed as the most significant find in the past 100 years.
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Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies.
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Ceremony today Renowned, brilliant, and increasingly eccentric astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is to receive the oldest award for scientific achievement today, in recognition of his huge contribution to our understanding* of the universe.â¦
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Astronomers are highly confident that they've taken the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system.
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Astronomers reveal one of the clearest images obtained of Stephan's Quintet.
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By Barry, Patrick Finding a single heavy antimatter nucleus could revolutionize cosmology When summer comes to Antarctica this December, a group of physicists there will launch an enormous balloon carrying a scientific instrument through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space.
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Construction on an underground physics experiment reaches a major milestone at Cern.
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Instrument to help astrophysicists learn what universe is made of, how it evolvesScientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations.
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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Construction on a major underground physics experiment reaches a major milestone at Cern.
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It took 20 years from conception to today, but the world&#39;s most powerful telescope was finally dedicated. Though it won&#39;t be fully operational until next year, Friday&#39;s dedication a historic milestone.
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The latest image from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope highlights a stellar blast that was first discovered by an amateur astronomer a little more than a month ago.
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A decade-long mystery has been solved using data from ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton.