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  Two weeks after something slammed into Jupiter, creating a cloud of debris that is still easy to see
What Hit Jupiter?
Two weeks after something slammed into Jupiter, creating a cloud of debris that is still easy to see through backyard telescopes, researchers are wondering ... what was the impactor?
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  Where have all the sunspots gone? Scientists studying a jet stream deep inside the sun may have fou
Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
Where have all the sunspots gone? Scientists studying a jet stream deep inside the sun may have found the answer.
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  Researchers are about to subject a fake astronaut complete with blood cells and simulated human tiss
Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare
Researchers are about to subject a fake astronaut complete with blood cells and simulated human tissue to an artificial solar flare. How the unlucky volunteer emerges from the radiation storm will reveal for the first time how much of a threat severe solar flares pose to astronauts en route to the Moon and Mars.
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  An international panel of experts has issued a new prediction for the solar cycle which takes into a
New Solar Cycle Prediction
An international panel of experts has issued a new prediction for the solar cycle which takes into account the surprisingly deep solar minimum of 2008-2009. Read today's story to find out when they think solar maximum will return.
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  A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite has smashed the previous distance record for th
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite has smashed the previous distance record for the most powerful explosions in the Universe. Researchers are calling it 'an incredible find' and a 'true blast from the past.'
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  For the first time, NASA spacecraft have traced the 3D shape of solar storms known as coronal mass e
The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms
For the first time, NASA spacecraft have traced the 3D shape of solar storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). It turns out the most ferocious storms resemble something from a French bakery.
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  Ares Super-chute
NASA and U.S. Air Force test pilots have just dropped a 50,000-pound "dummy" rocket booster on the Arizona desert--and stopped it before it crashed. It's all part of NASA's plan to return to the Moon.
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  Extreme Gamma-ray Burst
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a record-setting gamma-ray burst with the greatest total energy and fastest motions ever seen.
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NASA spacecraft are monitoring blasts of gamma-ray energy from a star 30,000 light years away. Some of the flares have packed more total energy than the sun puts out in 20 years.
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