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Juno To Remain In Current Orbit Around Jupiter: NASA
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft, which has been probing Jupiter since July last year, will remain in its current 53-day orbit around the gas giant planet for the remainder of its mission.
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NASA Mission To Study Black Holes Set For 2020 Launch
NASA plans to launch a USD 188 million science mission in 2020 that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.
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Hubble Spots Super-Hot Star 'Inflating' Giant Bubble
To mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unveiled an image captured by it of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star located 7,100 light-years from Earth.
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NASA Probe Beams Sharpest Ever Images of Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back some of the sharpest images of Pluto, showing a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains, which may be the best close-ups of the icy-dwarf planet that humans could see for decades.
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NASA Mission to Look for Water on Jupiter's Moon Europa
NASA has come a step closer to its planned mission to Europa which will try to find out if a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of the Jupiter's moon have the ingredients to support life.
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Juno To Remain In Current Orbit Around Jupiter: NASA
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft, which has been probing Jupiter since July last year, will remain in its current 53-day orbit around the gas giant planet for the remainder of its mission.
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NASA Mission To Study Black Holes Set For 2020 Launch
NASA plans to launch a USD 188 million science mission in 2020 that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.
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Hubble Spots Super-Hot Star 'Inflating' Giant Bubble
To mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unveiled an image captured by it of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star located 7,100 light-years from Earth.
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NASA Probe Beams Sharpest Ever Images of Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back some of the sharpest images of Pluto, showing a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains, which may be the best close-ups of the icy-dwarf planet that humans could see for decades.
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NASA Mission to Look for Water on Jupiter's Moon Europa
NASA has come a step closer to its planned mission to Europa which will try to find out if a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of the Jupiter's moon have the ingredients to support life.
