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The Two-Faced Whirlpool Galaxy
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These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. The image at left, taken in visible light, highlights the attributes of a typical spiral galaxy, including graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions, and brilliant blue strands of star clusters. In the image at right, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure, as seen in near-infrared lig ... read more

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Reverence For The Heavens
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Planck's New View Of The Cosmic Theatre
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Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Identified
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High-Energy Surprises In Constant Crab Nebula
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PHYSICS NEWS

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New Insights Into Sun's Photosphere
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini To Probe Rhea For Clues To Saturn Rings
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Astronomers Discover Close-Knit Pairs Of Massive Black Holes
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of Hawaii (UH) have discovered 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive ... more
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Toronto Astronomers Share In Planck's Treasure Trove Of Science
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Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard After All
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In Distant Galaxies, New Clues To Century-Old Molecule Mystery
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Possible Missing Link Between Young And Old Galaxies
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NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Snaps Image Of Space Oddity
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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MOON DAILY

Lunar water may have come from comets - scientists
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