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Scientists Find Exosolar Planets Have Water

Although its existence has long been suspected, scientists have finally found evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of an exosolar planet. The feat was accomplished by looking at the spectum of...

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A Three-Way View Of the Center Of the Galaxy

Three-Way View of Milky WayNASACelebrating the four centuries of astronomical advancement since Galileo took his first telescopic view of the heavens, NASA today unveiled this unique view of the heart...

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Largest Ever Milky Way Panorama Constructed from 800,000 Snapshots

Spitzer's Milky Way PanoramaNASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of WisconsinI can almost see my ... wait, never mindSize doesn't always matter when it comes to NASA's pretty pictures, but it may certainly make an...

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Spitzer Telescope Finds First-Ever Buckyballs in Space

Spitzer Finds Buckyballs in SpaceNASA/JPL-CaltechAn artist's depiction..The space discoveries are piling up this week. Next up: Astronomers working with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered...

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Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art

In a shared office on the southern edge of Caltech's campus, Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are making art out of science. Armed with the industry standards–Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects–it's their...

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Spitzer Telescope Sees Busy Galactic Center In a New Light

Downtown, Milky WayNASA/JPL-CaltechThe center of the Milky Way is hard to see in visible light, because interstellar dust blocks our view. But the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared vision can...

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How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

Cool, Clear WaterNASA/JPL-Caltech/T. PyleThe nearby star TW Hydrae has a burgeoning solar system with a sprawling cloud of cold water vapor. The vapor is cold enough to eventually form comets, which...

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Pretty Space Pics: The Dragonfish, a Crowded Cluster of Super-Massive Stars

The DragonfishNASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE Team/Mubdi Rahman via SPACEToday in pretty space pics: Using the Spitzer Space Telescope's knack for infrared imagery, astronomers have snapped an image of the...

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Big Pic: A Star's Bright Birth

HH 46/47NASA/JPL-Caltech/ALMAHellooooo colorful baby star! NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly finished Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile were able to get us this...

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A Super Hot, Rocky Planet Has Been Discovered Just 21 Light Years Away

Planet HD 219134b, a super hot rocky world just 21 light years awayNASA/JPL-CaltechThe galaxy is a pretty big place, so NASA's announcement today that scientists have discovered a solid, rocky planet...

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A Three-Way View Of the Center Of the Galaxy

Technology Celebrating the four centuries of astronomical advancement since Galileo took his first telescopic view of the heavens, NASA today unveiled this unique view of the heart of… Celebrating the...

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Largest Ever Milky Way Panorama Constructed from 800,000 Snapshots

Technology A Chicago planetarium unveiled the 120-feet-long picture of our home galaxy this week Size doesn't always matter when it comes to NASA's pretty pictures, but it may certainly make an...

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Spitzer Telescope Finds First-Ever Buckyballs in Space

Technology The space discoveries are piling up this week. Next up: Astronomers working with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered buckyballs in space for the very first time,… The space...

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Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art

Technology We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope's visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission's reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public...

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Spitzer Telescope Sees Busy Galactic Center In a New Light

Science The center of the Milky Way is hard to see in visible light, because interstellar dust blocks our view. But the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared vision can penetrate the… The center of the...

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How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

Science A pair of new comet studies from two space telescopes show how other planets might grow oceans. For the first time, astronomers have detected a ring of cold water vapor… A pair of new comet...

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Pretty Space Pics: The Dragonfish, a Crowded Cluster of Super-Massive Stars

Technology Today in pretty space pics: Using the Spitzer Space Telescope's knack for infrared imagery, astronomers have snapped an image of the most crowded grouping of supermassive… Today in pretty...

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Big Pic: A Star's Bright Birth

Technology Supersonic jets blow gas out of Herbig-Haro 46/47. Hellooooo colorful baby star! NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly finished Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in...

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A Super Hot, Rocky Planet Has Been Discovered Just 21 Light Years Away

Space Don't call it 'Arrakis' The galaxy is a pretty big place, so NASA's announcement today that scientists have discovered a solid, rocky planet located just 21 light years away from our own solar…

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This watery, Neptune-sized exoplanet could help us learn how new worlds evolve

Space It's surprisingly lacking in heavy elements Researchers have published some of the most detailed study yet of a medium, Neptune-sized planet.

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