May 13, 2013New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First DiscoveryKepler 76b
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May 13, 2013New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First DiscoveryKepler-76b
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April 18, 2013Two Water Worlds for the Price of OneKepler-62e and -f
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March 26, 2013Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Supernovasupernova Type lax
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February 27, 2013Supermassive Black Hole Spins Super-Fastblack hole
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February 25, 2013Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Starshabitable planet orbiting a white dwarf
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February 06, 2013Earth-like Planets Are Right Next Doorred dwarf star
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February 06, 2013Earth-like Planets Are Right Next Doorgraph of red dwarf stars
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February 06, 2013Earth-like Planets Are Right Next DoorRed Dwarf Planet
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January 07, 2013At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized PlanetStars with Planet Graph
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January 07, 2013At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized PlanetPlanets detected by Kepler
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September 27, 2012Peering to the Edge of a Black Holeregion surrounding black hole
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September 11, 2012Planets Can Form in the Galactic Centerprotoplanetary disk
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August 28, 2012Space-Warping White Dwarfs Produce Gravitational WavesJ0651
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June 21, 2012Planetrise: Alien World Looms Large in its Neighbor's SkyKepler-36b
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June 13, 2012Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expectednewly formed star
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May 29, 2012Ghostly Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's CenterMilky Way galaxy
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May 22, 2012The Older We Get, The Less We Know (Cosmologically)Big Bang
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May 02, 2012Black Hole Caught in a Feeding Frenzysimulation of a black hole flare
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April 17, 2012Some Stars Capture Rogue Planetsdistant star system
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March 22, 2012Planet Starship: Runaway Planets Zoom at a Fraction of Light-Speedrunaway planet
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February 21, 2012Hubble Reveals a New Type of PlanetGJ1214b
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January 11, 2012Planets with Double Suns are CommonKepler-34b
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December 20, 2011First Earth-Sized Planets FoundKepler-20 planetary system
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December 20, 2011First Earth-Sized Planets FoundKepler-20f
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December 20, 2011First Earth-Sized Planets FoundKepler-20e
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December 20, 2011First Earth-Sized Planets FoundExoplanet
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November 18, 2011NASA's Chandra Adds to Black Hole Birth AnnouncementCygnus X-1
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October 17, 2011Dark Matter Mystery Deepensdwarf galaxy
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October 06, 2011Crab Pulsar Dazzles Astronomers with its Gamma-Ray BeamsVERITAS and Crab Nebula
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October 06, 2011Crab Pulsar Dazzles Astronomers with its Gamma-Ray BeamsCrab Nebula
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October 06, 2011Crab Pulsar Dazzles Astronomers with its Gamma-Ray BeamsCrab Nebula
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September 15, 2011From Star Wars to Science Fact: Tatooine-Like Planet DiscoveredKepler-16b
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September 08, 2011Invisible World DiscoveredKepler-19bc
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September 06, 2011Our Galaxy Might Hold Thousands of Ticking "Time Bombs"Type Ia supernovae
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August 11, 2011Alien World is Blacker than Coalexoplanet TrES-2b
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July 21, 2011Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World SightAurora planet Animation
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July 21, 2011Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World SightAurora planet
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July 13, 2011Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dancewhite dwarfs
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May 23, 2011How to Learn a Star's True Agehypothetical exoplanet
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April 13, 2011Far-Future Astronomers Could Still Deduce the Big Bangcosmic view a trillion years from now
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April 08, 2011Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds StarsBlack Holes
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April 06, 2011Two Dying Stars Reborn as Onereborn star shown with a hypothetical world
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January 13, 2011The Best Way to Measure Dark Energy Just Got BetterType Ia supernova
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January 11, 2011New Telescope Exploring Solar System "Outback"Haumea
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December 14, 2010Qatar-Led International Team Finds Their First Alien WorldQatar-1b
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December 01, 2010Super-Earth Has an Atmosphere, But Is It Steamy or Gassy?extrasolar planet GJ 1214b
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December 01, 2010The Universe Does Think Smallelliptical galaxies
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October 15, 2010How to Weigh a Star Using a Moonexoplanet
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September 29, 2010Milky Way Sidelined in Galactic Tug of WarMagellanic System
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September 13, 2010NASA's Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objectstrans-Neptunian object
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August 26, 2010NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Starplanetary system
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August 23, 2010Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Starsbinary star
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August 23, 2010Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Starsplanetary collision
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July 22, 2010Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky WayHE 0437-5439
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July 22, 2010Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky WayHE 0437-5439
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June 16, 2010Pan-STARRS Asteroid Hunter and Sky Surveyor Now Fully Operationalasteroid
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March 03, 2010First of Missing Primitive Stars DiscoveredRed Giant
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January 27, 2010Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Meanssupernova explosion
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January 27, 2010Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Meanssupernova explosion
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January 06, 2010Massive Stars: Good Targets for Planet Hunts, Bad Targets for SETIB Star
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January 06, 2010Massive Stars: Good Targets for Planet Hunts, Bad Targets for SETIDust Ring
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December 17, 2009Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Realsuper-Earth
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December 17, 2009Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be RealExomoon
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December 15, 2009Close-up Photos of Dying Star Show Our Sun's FateChi Cygni
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December 16, 2009Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf TechnologyGJ1214b
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December 16, 2009Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf TechnologyGJ1214b
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November 16, 2009Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-SunsOrion Source I
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July 29, 2009Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weightgalaxy simulation
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July 29, 2009Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weightgalaxy simulation
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June 10, 2009Radio Telescope Images Reveal Planet-Forming Disk Orbiting Twin SunsV4046 Sagittarii
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April 29, 2009Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Wayblack hole
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March 19, 2009Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought!Hypothetical Twin Earth
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February 12, 2009Astronomers Unveiling Life's Cosmic OriginsThe Cosmic Chemistry Cycle
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February 12, 2009Astronomers Unveiling Life's Cosmic OriginsThe Cosmic Chemistry Cycle
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January 16, 2009Transit Search Finds Super-NeptuneHAT-P-11b
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January 05, 2009Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements ShowMilky Way
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January 05, 2009Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole’s Grasp at Galactic Centerstar formation
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December 03, 2008Brown Dwarfs Do Form Like Starsbrown dwarf ISO-Oph 102
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December 03, 2008Brown Dwarfs Do Form Like Starsbrown dwarf ISO-Oph 102
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October 27, 2008Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid BeltsEpsilon Eridani
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October 27, 2008Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid BeltsEpsilon Eridani
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October 16, 2008Colossal Black Holes Common in the Early UniverseArtist’s conception of the 4C60.07 system of colliding galaxies
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July 31, 2008The First StarsPrimordial Stars
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June 03, 2008Milky Way's Inner Beauty RevealedMilky Way
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June 03, 2008Milky Way's Inner Beauty RevealedMilky Way
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June 03, 2008Milky Way Mapping Project Finds Surprisingly Slow Starsmap of the near side of the Milky Way
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April 07, 2008New Laser Technology Could Find First Earth-like PlanetsEarth-like planet
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March 11, 2008Naval Research Laboratory and Smithsonian Team Up to Study Observatory for Far Side of MoonDark Ages Lunar Interferometer (DALI)
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February 18, 2008More Than Half of Sun-like Stars May Have Rocky Planetsrocky planets
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January 09, 2008Earth: A Borderline Planet for Life?super-Earth
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January 09, 2008When Worlds Collide: Have Astronomers Observed the Aftermath of a Distant Planetary Collision?collision between two protoplanets
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December 26, 2007Jets Are a Real Dragprotostar
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November 01, 2007White Dwarf "Sibling Rivalry" Explodes into Supernovamerger of two white dwarf stars
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October 30, 2007Massive Black Hole Smashes Recordstellar-mass black hole
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October 30, 2007Massive Black Hole Smashes Recordstellar-mass black hole
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July 23, 2007Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Negatively-Charged Molecule DiscoveryCH8
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May 14, 2007When Galaxies Collide, our Solar System Will Go for a Ridefuture Earth
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May 09, 2007First Map of an Extrasolar PlanetHD189733b
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April 17, 2007Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest Mass White Dwarfwhite dwarf
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February 21, 2007Absence of Water in Distant Planet's Atmosphere Surprises AstronomersHD 189733b
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January 08, 2007Eavesdropping on the Universehypothetical distant world
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November 20, 2006Spinning Black Hole Pushes the Limitblack hole
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November 20, 2006Spinning Black Hole Pushes the Limitblack hole diagram
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October 11, 2006Some Super-Earths Form in Super Snowstormssuper-Earth
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September 19, 2006Scientists Snap Images of First Brown Dwarf in Planetary Systemartist's concept of the star HD 3651
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September 14, 2006Astronomers Reveal First Alien I.D. ChartEarth's early atmosphere
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September 14, 2006Strange New Planet Baffles AstronomersHAT-P-1
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September 14, 2006Strange New Planet Baffles AstronomersHAT-P-1
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September 08, 2006Massive Planet Found by Astronomers Using Novel Network of Tiny Telescopesartist's conception of TrES-2
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September 08, 2006Massive Planet Found by Astronomers Using Novel Network of Tiny Telescopesartist's conception of TrES-2
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July 19, 2006Stellar Explosion Portends Bigger Blast To ComeRS Ophiuchi
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June 05, 2006Jupiter's "Big Brother" Has Moon-Forming Dust DiskJupiter-mass object
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May 17, 2006When Dwarfs Gave Way to Giantsdwarf galaxy
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March 13, 2006Super-Earths May Be Three Times More Common Than Jupiterssuper-Earth orbiting red dwarf star
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January 31, 2006Neutron Star Swaps Lead to Short Gamma-Ray Burstsmerger of two neutron stars
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January 30, 2006Most Milky Way Stars Are Singleextrasolar planet
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January 26, 2006Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy ForeverExiled stars speeding out of the Milky Way
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January 12, 2006Growing Supermassive Black Holes from SeedsMerger of two black holes
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January 11, 2006Astronomers Spot The Great Orion Nebula's SuccessorGrand Nebula in Cassiopeia
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January 09, 2006There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye Polaris and its two companions stars
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January 03, 2006A Planet Colder Than It Should BePluto and its moon Charon
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December 21, 2005Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovaesupernova
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December 21, 2005Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovaesupernova
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November 29, 2005Planet-sized Brown Dwarf May Yield Miniature Solar Systemhypothetical solar system
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September 22, 2005Ferreting Out The First Starsgamma-ray burst
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September 22, 2005Ferreting Out The First Starsgamma-ray burst
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August 31, 2005Fastest Pulsar Speeding Out of Galaxy, Astronomers DiscoverPulsar B1508+55
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August 31, 2005How to Build a Big Starmassive star
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July 18, 2005Astronomers Debate Whether Oldest Known Dust Disk Will Ever Form Planetsprotoplanetary disk
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June 28, 2005Hibernating Spacecraft Awakens for Comet Impact MissionSubmillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
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June 24, 2005Detour: Planetary Construction Zone AheadTW Hydrae
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June 16, 2005Observing the Solar System in Submillimeter WavelengthsComet Tempel 1
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June 14, 2005SMA Confirms Proto-Planetary Systems are Common in the Galaxyproplyds
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May 23, 2005Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team to Find New Planetexoplanet
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May 11, 2005Robotic Telescope Penetrates Heart of Universe's Most Powerful Explosiongamma-ray burst
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April 05, 2005Case of Sedna's Missing Moon SolvedSedna
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April 05, 2005Case of Sedna's Missing Moon SolvedSedna
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March 22, 2005First Direct Detection of Light From Extrasolar PlanetsTrES-1
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March 22, 2005First Direct Detection of Light From Extrasolar PlanetsTrES-1
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March 09, 2005Young Universe Looks Like "Vegetable Soup"early universe
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February 18, 2005Blast Affected Earth From Halfway Across The Milky Waymagnetar SGR 1806-20
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February 18, 2005Blast Affected Earth From Halfway Across The Milky Waymagnetar SGR 1806-20
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February 18, 2005Blast Affected Earth From Halfway Across The Milky Waymagnetar SGR 1806-20
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February 08, 2005First Stellar Outcast Discovered by Astronomersstellar outcast
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February 07, 2005Tiny Brown Dwarf's Disk May Form Miniature Solar Systembrown dwarf OTS 44
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February 07, 2005Tiny Brown Dwarf's Disk May Form Miniature Solar Systembrown dwarf OTS 44
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January 28, 2005Biggest Stars Produce Strongest Magnetsmagnetar
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January 10, 2005Going Beyond Einstein: Spacetime Wave Orbits Black Holebinary system GRS1915+105
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January 10, 2005Going Beyond Einstein: Spacetime Wave Orbits Black Holeblack hole
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