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05.16.13

Galaxy's Ring of Fire

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05.06.13

NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish

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04.03.13

A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars

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02.07.13

NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes

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01.08.13

NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega

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01.08.13

NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

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01.07.13

Have You Practiced Your Piano and Done Your NASA Research?

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12.19.12

Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds

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12.18.12

Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves

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11.15.12

NASA Observatories Find Most Distant Galaxy Candidate

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11.01.12

Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life

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10.24.12

NASA'S Spitzer Sees Light Of Lonesome Stars

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10.03.12

NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion Of Universe

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09.26.12

Spitzer, Hubble See Galaxy-Altering Quasars Ignite

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09.25.12

Spitzer Welcomes Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles

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09.19.12

NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy

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07.18.12

Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller than Earth

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06.26.12

Astronomers Spot Rare Arc From Hefty Galaxy Cluster

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06.19.12

Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals

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06.07.12

NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

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05.25.12

NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock

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05.08.12

NASA's Spitzer Sees The Light of Alien 'Super Earth'

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04.24.12

NASA'S Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split Personality

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04.05.12

NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions

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03.26.12

A New Release of Infrared Galaxy Data

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03.07.12

Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way

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02.29.12

Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust

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02.22.12

NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

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01.24.12

Astronomical Success: Caltech's George Helou Honored by Home Country of Lebanon

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01.11.12

Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to High Schools, Middle Schools, Museums

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01.10.12

Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' Stardust

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01.10.12

Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery

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12.21.11

NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

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12.01.11

Strange New “Species” of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered

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11.29.11

The Shape of the Universe: Recent Deep Space Photography

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11.23.11

Doubling Up on the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

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11.11.11

The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared Light

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10.24.11

NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery

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10.19.11

NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System

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10.19.11

Spitzer Finds the Coldest Companion to a Star Ever Seen

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09.26.11

Spitzer Detects a Steaming Super-Earth Eclipsing Its Star

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08.15.11

Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space

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08.10.11

A Cosmic Inkblot Test

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08.09.11

Spitzer Status Update

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07.20.11

Spitzer's Spider Web of Stars

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06.30.11

NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas

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06.14.11

A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero

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05.26.11

Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant Star

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05.23.11

Planet? Check.

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05.31.11

Spitzer Achievements Honored at Rotary Stellar Awards

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04.12.11

NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Early Galaxy

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04.04.11

NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star

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02.10.11

New View of Family Life in the North America Nebula

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02.12.11

IPAC Celebrates 25 Years at Caltech

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01.12.11

NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy Cluster

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01.12.11

Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard After All

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01.07.11

Stellar Education: Teachers Bring Classroom Space Science to Astronomy Conference

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12.08.10

NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet

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11.24.10

Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies

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11.18.10

Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck

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10.27.10

Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer Telescope

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10.26.10

Spitzer Goes Buck Wild and Finds Buckyballs Floating Between the Stars

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10.19.10

Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an Exoplanet

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10.12.10

Giant Star Goes Supernova -- and is Smothered by its Own Dust

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09.23.10

Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star Birth

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09.02.10

Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids

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08.23.10

Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

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08.17.10

Galaxies' Glory Days Revealed

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08.05.10

NASA's Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle

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07.28.10

Into the Wild: Spitzer Space Telescope Surveys the Milky Way's Outback

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07.22.10

NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time

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07.14.10

Unravelling the Mystery of Star Birth - Dust Disk Discovered Around Massive Star

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07.09.10

Catch a Planet By the Tail

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07.06.10

Spitzer Spies a 'Flying Dragon' Smoldering with Secret Star Birth

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06.24.10

The Coolest Stars Come Out of the Dark

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05.26.10

Astronomers Discover Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas Clouds

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05.20.10

Two Peas in an Irregular Pod: How Binary Stars May Form

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05.11.10

Ancient City of Galaxies Looks Surprisingly Modern

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04.21.10

'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer Telescope

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03.30.10

Colony of Young Stars Shines in New Spitzer Image

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03.29.10

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer Image

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03.23.10

Spitzer Space Telescope Team Receives Award

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03.17.10

NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes

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03.11.10

Spitzer Detects the 'Heartbeat' of Star Formation in the Milky Way Galaxy

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02.18.10

Jurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near Us

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02.17.10

NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions

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02.09.10

Spitzer Goes to the Olympics

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01.29.10

The Coolest of Orbs

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01.05.10

Galaxy Exposes its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image

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01.05.10

Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a Close

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12.24.09

A Quarter Century of Infrared Astronomy

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11.30.09

Spitzer to Unveil Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

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11.20.09

Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf

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11.10.09

NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy

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11.04.09

Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System

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10.30.09

Spitzer Space Telescope Mission Status

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10.23.09

Universal Origins

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10.20.09

Astronomers Do It Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet

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10.07.09

NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn

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09.23.09

	February 21 Robot Astronomy Talk Show In Progress: The Mass of Asteroids
	February 8 Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar
	August 7 Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)
	July 18 Flying Out to GJ 436 and its Planets
	May 21 Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)

	May 16 Galactic Wheels within Wheels
	May 6 An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab
	April 3 Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
	March 19 Infant Stars Peek Out from Dusty Cradles
	February 8 Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar