April 02, 2013New Insights on How Spiral Galaxies Get Their ArmsM74
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March 07, 2013Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" SupernovaPS1-12sk
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March 07, 2013Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" SupernovaPS1-12sk
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October 29, 2012Galactic Thief: "I Would Have Gotten Away With It, If It Weren't for Those Meddling Astronomers"Milky Way
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October 22, 2012Split-Personality Elliptical Galaxy Holds a Hidden SpiralCentaurus A
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September 27, 2012Peering to the Edge of a Black HoleM87
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August 15, 2012Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming StarsPhoenix Cluster
x-ray / optical / ultraviolet 

August 08, 2012Astronomers Release the Largest Ever Three-Dimensional Map of the SkySDSS-III galaxies
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June 04, 2012Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home GalaxyCID-42
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May 07, 2012One Supernova Type, Two Different SourcesTycho supernova remnant
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March 20, 2012Explosive Stars with Good Table MannersM101
ultraviolet / optical 

February 15, 2012Black Hole Came from a Shredded GalaxyESO 243-49
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November 30, 2011New Exhibition, Website Guide Visitors through the Evolving UniverseWhirlpool Galaxy (M51)
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November 30, 2011New Exhibition, Website Guide Visitors through the Evolving UniverseIC 410
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November 18, 2011NASA's Chandra Adds to Black Hole Birth AnnouncementCygnus X-1
optical / art 

June 08, 2011New Supernova Remnant Lights UpSN 1987A
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November 16, 2010Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems that Might Explodebinary star system J0923+3028
optical / illustration 

November 15, 2010NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black HoleM100 galaxy
x-ray / optical / infrared 

October 13, 2010Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universegalaxy cluster
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October 13, 2010Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universegalaxy cluster
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July 22, 2010Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky WayHE 0437-5439
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July 12, 2010Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a MysteryM101
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May 25, 2010Nearby Black Hole is Feeble and UnpredictableAndromeda Galaxy
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March 31, 2010Astronomers See Historical Supernova From a New Anglelight echoes from Cassiopeia A
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March 21, 2010Astronomers Get Sharpest View Ever of Star Factories in Distant UniverseArp 220
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November 02, 2009VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-Year-Old Mystery: The Origin of Cosmic RaysM82
x-ray / infrared / optical 

September 09, 2009Magnetic Fields Play Larger Role in Star Formation than Previously ThoughtOrion Nebula
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July 23, 2009NASA Celebrates Chandra X-ray Observatory's 10th Anniversarysupernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219
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April 28, 2009Farthest Known Object: New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance RecordGRB 090423
ultraviolet / optical / x-ray 

December 17, 2008Dark Energy Found Stifling Growth in UniverseAbell 85
x-ray / optical / illustration 

October 06, 2008Boulder-sized Asteroid Will Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere Tonightasteroid 2008 TC3
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August 22, 2008Spitzer Reveals Stellar "Family Tree"W5 star forming region
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August 22, 2008Spitzer Reveals Stellar "Family Tree"W5 star forming region
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December 18, 2007New View of Distant Galaxy Reveals Furious Star FormationGOOD 850-5
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November 26, 2007A Last Look at Comet HolmesComet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 26, 2007Old Comet Still Kicks Up Its Heels!Comet 17P/Holmes
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October 25, 2007Mystery Comet Explodes into BrightnessComet 17P/Holmes
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September 17, 2007The Magellanic Clouds Are First-Time VisitorsLarge Magellanic Cloud
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August 09, 2007Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant UniverseGalaxy
submillimeter / optical 

August 09, 2007Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant UniverseGalaxy
submillimeter / optical 

August 09, 2007Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant UniverseGalaxy
submillimeter / optical 

May 28, 2007New Hubble Photograph Shows Stunning Details in Spiral Galaxy M81M81
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May 28, 2007New Hubble Photograph Shows Stunning Details in Spiral Galaxy M81M81 composite
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May 28, 2007New Hubble Photograph Shows Stunning Details in Spiral Galaxy M81M81
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April 20, 2007Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of LifeNGC 4051 galaxy
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April 17, 2007Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest Mass White DwarfSDSS J091709.55+463821.8 (white dwarf)
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February 22, 200720 Years of Surprises from Supernova 1987ASN 1987A
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January 09, 2007Magellanic Clouds May Be Just Passing ThroughLarge Magellanic Cloud
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August 14, 2006NASA's Spitzer Reveals New Wonders in the Familiar Orion NebulaOrion Nebula
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June 14, 2006Milky Way's Sister Galaxy Shines in New PortraitTriangulum galaxy (M33)
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January 31, 2006Neutron Star Swaps Lead to Short Gamma-Ray BurstsM15 with double neutron star system, M15C
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January 31, 2006Neutron Star Swaps Lead to Short Gamma-Ray BurstsGalactic globular cluster M15
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January 26, 2006Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy ForeverSDSS J091759.5+672238
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January 26, 2006Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy ForeverSDSS J091301.0+305120
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January 12, 2006New Maser Measurements Trace Detail in Active Galactic Corespiral galaxy NGC 3079
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January 09, 2006Spitzer Puts a New Spin on the Helix NebulaHelix Nebula
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January 09, 2006There's More to the North Star Than Meets the EyePolaris Companion Star
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December 22, 2005A Holiday Gift from Space: Spitzer Photographs Christmas Tree ClusterNGC 2264 (Christmas Tree Cluster)
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November 17, 2005Einstein's Rings in SpaceEinstein's rings
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November 15, 2005Spitzer Harvests Dozens of New StarsNGC 1333
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October 04, 2005It Takes Three Smithsonian Observatories To Decipher One Mystery ObjectL1014 cosmic cloud
infrared / optical / submillimeter 

June 14, 2005SMA Confirms Proto-Planetary Systems are Common in the Galaxyprotoplanetary disks
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June 14, 2005SMA Confirms Proto-Planetary Systems are Common in the Galaxyprotoplanetary disks
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June 06, 2005Exploding Star Left No Visible Coresupernova 1987A
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June 06, 2005Exploding Star Left No Visible Coresupernova 1987A
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May 23, 2005Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team to Find New Planetexoplanet
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March 03, 2005Astronomers Measure Slowest Motion Across The Skyspiral galaxy M33
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February 08, 2005First Stellar Outcast Discovered by Astronomersstellar outcast
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