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"Although the mission was originally expected to be beyond any possible help after it launches in 2013, NASA officials say they are now looking into minor modifications to the design to allow a s

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To celebrate the occasion, Bad Astronmy takes us on a guided tour through the Carina Nebula. Awesome images.

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"Ironically, black holes aren’t too hard to find. They’re bright. Here’s a bunch of ‘em..." Space is not just big, it's quite pretty too - and great fun to think about.

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"Jacobs is a sidewalk astronomer, one of a few hundred amateurs around the US who are on a mission to take their telescopes to the streets." This is a form of evangelism I have no problem wi

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"Astronomers at Space Telescope Science Institute just released a new image, and it’s a beauty." New desktop wallpaper here at Velcro City!

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"The main camera for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is out of commission again, but this time, the agency believes it can never be fully revived." Just when they'd made a plan to fix the thin

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"The Webb telescope will be able to adjust its light mask with exquisite precision, something that previous technologies could not achieve to anywhere near this level of performance."

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"The famous "pillars of creation" – clouds of dust and gas imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are no more – a supernova blast wave has blown them apart." Life goes on.

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"The Internet search company has struck a partnership with scientists building a huge sky-scanning telescope, with hopes of helping the public access digital footage of asteroids, supernovas and

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"Astronomers have mapped the cosmic "scaffold" of dark matter upon which stars and galaxies are assembled." Now that is pretty damn cool.

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"...a Russian Soyuz 2-1b rocket with the European COROT space observatory launched [...] from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The French-led COROT mission will look for rocky planets around othe

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"...detailed studies for the European Extremely Large Telescope [...] will make it possible to start, in three years time, the construction of an optical/infrared telescope with a diameter around

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"A giant black hole has been caught red-handed dipping into a cosmic cookie jar of stars by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. This is the first time astronomers have seen the whole process of a b

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"The molecule in question is called C6H-, described as a chain of six carbon atoms with one hydrogen atom at the end and an extra electron."

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"Eight years in the making, the ... LMT will be the most precise radio telescope of its kind in the world and will be used to study the composition of comets, the atmospheres of planets beyond ou

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"New clues about the origins of cosmic rays, mysterious high-energy particles that bombard the Earth, have been revealed using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory."

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That's Hubble Space Telescope, by the way, not Hunter S. Thompson - though an image archive of Dr. Gonzo would be pretty cool too. Via Centauri Dreams.

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"Construction of the Allen Telescope Array, named after its chief benefactor, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen, will halt at the end of this year unless further funding is found.&q

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"Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013." Makes economic se

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"The COROT space telescope is proceeding smoothly towards its launch in December 2006. Once in orbit, COROT will become the first spacecraft devoted to the search for rocky planets, similar to ou

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"The fate of what some scientists dub “the people's telescope" is again up in the air, as NASA decides soon whether to squeeze in a last astronaut repair mission to extend the life of the Hu

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"SETI is akin to discovery science, despite its ... presumption that the extraterrestrials exist, because that hypothesis is not falsifiable. A failure to receive a [signal] from space doesn’t sa

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"The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera has been resuscitated after shutting itself down more than two weeks ago." And not a moment too soon; it does some pretty cool stuff, y'know

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" ... the Hubble Space Telescope has weighed in with definitive evidence for the existence of at least one of those worlds, a Jupiter-class gas giant in a 6.9 year orbit around the star."

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"The many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Teles

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Couldn't resist the childish headline ... big old storm on the outer planet, according to Hubble pictures.

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"The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year..."

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"Hubble's managers are still investigating the problem, but they are optimistic that they will be able to use the camera again soon."

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"Astronomers using a tiny amateur-class telescope and off-the-shelf camera lenses have found a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star 500 light-years from Earth." w00t! Score one for the littl

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