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Super-energetic Bursts Discovered Near Giant Black Hole - July 4
Combining gamma-ray telescopes with the supersharp radio'vision'of the Very Long Baseline Array showed astronomers the location from which very-high-energy gamma rays are emerging from the core ot the giant galaxy M87....Read More

New Class Of Pulsars Solve Mystery Of Previously Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources - July 3
A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms behind pulsar emissions....Read More

Return To The Moon: First Images Kick Off Mapping Mission - July 3
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial neighbor....Read More

New Class Of Black Holes Discovered - July 2
A new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered by an international team of astronomers....Read More

Coolest Spacecraft Ever In Orbit (-273 Degrees Celsius) - July 4
On July 2 the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2....Read More

Largest Ever Survey Of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed - July 3
Astronomers have completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey,"SpARCS"detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations. SpARCS is designed to find clusters, snapped as they appeared long ago in time, when the universe was 6 billion years old or younger....Read More

Astronomers Discover Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making - July 2
Astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system....Read More

NASA Phoenix Results Point to Martian Climate Cycles - July 2

Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes.


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