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07/29/2010 12:00 AM
Astronomers find planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
Scientists have uncovered two pairs of planets so close to each other that they interact gravitationally.

07/28/2010 12:00 AM
Brilliant star in a colorful neighborhood
WR 22, a member of a double star system in the Carina Nebula, is shedding its atmosphere at a rate many millions times faster than our Sun.

07/27/2010 12:00 AM
James Webb Space Telescope completes cryogenic mirror test
The test gauges how the mirrors change temperature and shape over a range of operational temperatures in space.

07/27/2010 12:00 AM
Massive results for scientists homing in on Higgs boson
Scientists have significantly narrowed down the possible mass range of the elusive Higgs boson particle, predicted to exist by the standard model of particle physics.

07/26/2010 12:00 AM
Hyperfast star was booted from Milky Way
This is the first direct observation linking a high-flying star to a galactic center origin.

07/26/2010 12:00 AM
NASA's Odyssey spacecraft camera yields most accurate Mars map ever
The map was constructed using almost 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, a multiband infrared camera.

07/23/2010 12:00 AM
NASA telescope finds elusive buckyballs in space for first time
Buckyballs are the largest molecules known to exist in space.

07/23/2010 12:00 AM
Subaru telescope detects clues for understanding the origin of mysterious dark gamma-ray bursts
The results open the possibility that dark gamma-ray bursts may spring from high-metallicty environments.

07/22/2010 12:00 AM
Cassini sees moon building giant snowballs in Saturn ring
Prometheus' gravitational pull sloshes ring material around, creating wake channels that trigger the formation of objects as large as 12 miles in diameter.

07/22/2010 12:00 AM
Black hole jerked around twice
Either a merging of the two central black holes from the colliding galaxies or more gas falling onto the black hole caused the spin axis to jerk around to its present direction.













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