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 | Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image.
Provided by the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Published: October 31, 2007 |
 | Comet 17P/Holmes continues to be a treat among the stars of Perseus. By Richard Talcott
Published: October 30, 2007 |
 | A new study of galaxies has unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: October 30, 2007 |
 | New images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal shells of stars around the quasar MC2 1635+119.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: October 29, 2007 |
 | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will utilize "SpaceWire," a network interface that will enable the mission's components to work more efficiently with each other.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 26, 2007 |
 | A new study detects the first-known moonlets in Saturn's rings.
Provided by the University of Colorado, Boulder
Published: October 24, 2007 |
 | China sends Chang'e-1 to the Moon — the first step in their goal to land robotic explorers on the lunar surface before 2020.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 24, 2007 |
 | NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars to assist search for the next landing site on the Red Planet.
Provided by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Howard County, Maryland
Published: October 23, 2007 |
 | Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole orbiting a huge companion star in a nearby galaxy.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: October 22, 2007 |
 | NASA has extended the mission for the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity for the fifth time.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 19, 2007 |
 | Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, UC Berkeley, and the SETI Institute launch the Allen Telescope Array, an innovative instrument for radio astronomy.
Provided by SETI, Mountain View, California
Published: October 16, 2007 |
 | Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a dwarf galaxy is much older and farther away than previously thought.
Provided by Hubble ESA, Garching, Germany
Published: October 16, 2007 |
 | Finnish amateur astronomer Arto Oksanen was the first to find the optical counterpart of a gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite.
Provided by the AAVSO, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: October 15, 2007 |
 | Using one of the Keck telescopes in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, an astronomer has developed the sharpest view of the Pluto system to date.
Provided by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Published: October 12, 2007 |
 | Observations reveal a widespread and persistent morning drizzle of methane over a region on Saturn's moon Titan.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: October 12, 2007 |
 | Scientists discover a new greenhouse gas on Venus, and learn the toasty planet's early oceans may have survived far longer than previously thought. By Richard Talcott
Published: October 11, 2007 |
 | Scientists will use NASA's Cassini spacecraft to investigate vaporized water ice movement on Saturn's moon Iapetus.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: October 10, 2007 |
 | En route to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returns images of dramatic changes on Jupiter and its moons.
Provided by the Division for Planetary Sciences
Published: October 9, 2007 |
 | Scientists have found a galaxy, nearly halfway across the universe, that is the smallest in size and mass known to exist at that distance.
Provided by the University of California, Santa Barbara
Published: October 8, 2007 |
 | The ESA's orbiting observatory Integral has identified a powerful and puzzling gamma-ray source.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: October 5, 2007 |
 | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered a developing exoplanet with earthlike conditions in a star system 424 light-years away.
Provided by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Howard County, Maryland
Published: October 4, 2007 |
 | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a young star cluster surrounded by a vast region of dust and gas
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: October 3, 2007 |
 | Astrobiologists have found evidence of oxygen present in Earth's atmosphere earlier than previously known, pushing back the timeline for the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Provided by the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Published: October 2, 2007 |
 | On a mission to study the Sun, the Ulysses spacecraft took take to examine Comet McNaught.
Provided by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Published: October 2, 2007 |
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