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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.

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NASA's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

05.05.09

Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age.

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Top Five Breakthroughs From Hubble's Workhorse Camera

05.04.09

Here are five things you should know about JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which is the oldest and longest working instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Herschel and Planck Share Ride to Space

05.05.09

Two missions to study the cosmos are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

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Stellar Shots: JPL's Camera on Hubble

JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which will be returned to Earth as part of the next space shuttle servicing mission, scheduled to launch on May 11, 2009, took some of Hubble's most famous views.
NASA's Fermi Explores High-energy "Space Invaders"

Fermi scientists revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in a nearby cosmic mystery.
If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with a Telescope

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years.
Dwarf Galaxy Starbursts: A Global Affair

Starbursts light up regions of space for a short time before winking out. But these fleeting stellar fireworks displays are only pieces of the story.
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record

NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old.

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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career

05.6.09 - The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye.
Herschel and Planck Missions to Study Cosmos Share Ride to Space

05.05.09 - Two missions to study the cosmos, the Herschel and Planck spacecraft, are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.