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 | This observation could help answer questions about why there is more matter than anti-matter in the universe.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: February 26, 2010 |
 | The new images also include the best 3-D image ever obtained of a "tiger stripe," a fissure that sprays icy particles, water vapor, and organic compounds.
Provided by the Cassini Imaging Lab, Boulder, Colorado
Published: February 24, 2010 |
 | Scientists ask public for help in understanding the Sun.
Provided by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, United Kingdom
Published: February 23, 2010 |
 | Cincinnati Observatory Center's "40 Galileos" project — winner of Astronomy magazine's 2008 Out-of-this-World award for public programming — graduates its first class of astronomy outreach leaders. Dean Regas, COC's outreach astronomer, provides this third and final report of the project's first year.
Astronomy magazine will announce the winner of the 2009 award March 1.
Dean Regas, Outreach Astronomer, COC
Published: February 23, 2010 |
 | The flyby will provide scientists the first opportunity to see the surface changes on a comet between successive visits.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 22, 2010 |
 | The Endeavour crew return to Earth after delivering the last major U.S. portion of the International Space Station.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 22, 2010 |
 | Magnetic fields play an important role during the birth of massive stars.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: February 19, 2010 |
 | Mergers of two dense stellar remnants are the likely cause of many of the supernovae that scientists have used to measure the accelerated expansion of the universe.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 19, 2010 |
 | An atom interferometer provides most precise test yet of Einstein's gravitational redshift
Provided by the University of California, Berkeley
Published: February 17, 2010 |
 | The data collected could help untangle the origin of Mars' mysterious moon.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 17, 2010 |
 | Compared to the average galaxy today, which produces stars at rates equaling about ten times the mass of our Sun per year, the rate of star formation in those same galaxies appears to have been up to ten times higher when they were younger.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: February 15, 2010 |
 | Finding suggests retrograde spin of supermassive black holes may create jets that control galaxy evolution.
Provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
Published: February 12, 2010 |
 | Thick sequence of rocks appears to show steps in the drying-out of Mars.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 11, 2010 |
 | The Solar Dynamics Observatory lifted off Thursday on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the Sun's inner workings.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 11, 2010 |
 | Scientists find explanation for higher star-formation rate in young galaxies.
Provided by the Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
Published: February 10, 2010 |
 | Vista telescope exposed high-speed antics of young stars.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: February 10, 2010 |
 | The shuttle began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 8, 2010 |
 | Maps of the cosmic microwave background depend on measuring minute differences in the temperature of the sky.
Provided by the Lawrence Berekeley Lab, Berkeley, California
Published: February 4, 2010 |
 | Pluto has become significantly redder, while its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: February 4, 2010 |
 | A relatively small Earth-based telescope identified an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet nearly 63 light-years away.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 3, 2010 |
 | In mid-February, asteroid 4 Vesta will brighten to magnitude 6.1, making it barely visible to a sharp eye under a dark sky. Astronomy magazine has all the tools you need to get the most of this great observing opportunity. By Liz Kruesi
Published: February 3, 2010 |
 | The Red Planet's Sirenum Fossae region extends for more than 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) to the southwest of the Tharsis volcanic region, which contains Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in our solar system.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 3, 2010 |
 | NGC 3603 is a starburst region — a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula's extended clouds of gas and dust.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: February 3, 2010 |
 | New Hubble images show a complex X-pattern of debris near the nucleus of a comet-like object.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: February 2, 2010 |
 | With its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA will probe the Sun in greater detail than ever before and, with luck, begin to answer some of its biggest mysteries. By Bill Andrews
Published: February 2, 2010 |
 | The president's goal is to eventually make commercially provided services the primary mode of travel for astronauts.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 2, 2010 |
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