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Hubble Sees a Swirl of Star Formation
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Hayes › Larger image This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather un-poetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy,...
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Hubble Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape
In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic...
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Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA – Acknowledgement: N. Rose › Larger image This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. Galaxy clusters are large groupings of galaxies, each of them including...
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NASA’s Swift Produces Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies
Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA’s Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two...
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Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks
This July Fourth the solar system is showing off some fireworks of its own. Superficially resembling a skyrocket, comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun presently at a whopping 48,000 mph. Its swift...
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Expedition 37 Crew, Olympic Torch Land in Kazakhstan
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft backs away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking at 6:26 p.m. EST Sunday. Image Credit: NASA TV Three Expedition 37 crew members have landed after...
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Clean Snowmobile Challenge to Feature New Fuel
Houghton, MI – Michigan Technological University is gearing up for the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, set for March 3-8. Twenty teams have registered for the competition, which challenges students to...
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Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity To Hunt For Planets
This plot shows the projected motion of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri (green line) over the next decade, as plotted from Hubble Space Telescope observations. Because of parallax due to Earth’s...
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Silver Carp Found 9 Miles From Lake Michigan – August 8, 2017
Marquette, MI – August 8, 2017 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a statement after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the Brandon Road Study, a draft plan for...
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Mending Broken Hearts with Nano-Fabricated Cardiom Yocyte Molds
2.5 billion. That’s approximately the number of times the human heart beats in 70 years. And sometimes during the course of its unrelenting contractions and relaxations, the heart muscle can no longer...
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