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feature12-02 01.25.12 Astronomical Success: Caltech's George Helou Honored by Home Country of Lebanon They say there is no place like home. For Caltech's George Helou, the essence of that phrase carries over to the recognition... read more	feature12-01 01.11.12 Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to High Schools, Middle Schools, Museums Imagine you are a high school student walking into your science class in September and you learn that your teacher is... read more
ssc2012-02 01.10.12 Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, likely... read more	ssc2012-01 01.10.12 Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' Stardust The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory... read more
ssc2011-10 12.21.11 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time A remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. read more	partner076 12.01.11 Strange New “Species” of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden... read more
partner075 11.29.11 The Shape of the Universe: Recent Deep Space Photography The Shape of the Universe is an exhibition of deep space photography, curated by artist David Em. The exhibition features... read more	feature11-13 11.23.11 Doubling Up on the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Like the Milky Way, Messier 83 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy due to the bar-like pattern of stars that run through... read more
feature11-12 11.10.11 The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared Light The Tarantula nebula can be seen here in a web of dust and multimillion-degree gas. read more	ssc2011-09 10.24.11 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding... read more
ssc2011-08 10.19.11 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. read more	feature11-11 10.19.11 Spitzer Finds the Coldest Companion to a Star Ever Seen Although we all want to think that the people we keep company with are "cool," when it comes to the cosmos, no one has... read more
feature11-10 09.26.11 Spitzer Detects a Steaming Super-Earth Eclipsing Its Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gathered surprising new details about a supersized and superheated version of Earth... read more	feature11-09 08.15.11 Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space. read more
feature11-08 08.10.11 A Cosmic Inkblot Test What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space? read more	feature11-07 08.09.11 Spitzer Status Update Spitzer scientists and engineers are beginning tests to study the feasibility of switching to the spacecraft's Inertial... read more
feature11-06 07.20.11 Spitzer's Spider Web of Stars Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	ssc2011-07 06.30.11 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer... read more
feature11-05 06.15.11 A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Has the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's Spitzer... read more	ssc2011-06 05.26.11 Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant Star Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations... read more

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