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NASA studies the universe from the smallest particles of matter and energy to the biggest questions of the evolution and structure of the cosmos.

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Latest Features

Planck Sees Light Billions of Years Old

08.13.09

The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.

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Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation

image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the star-forming cloud Cepheus B, located in our Milky Way galaxy about 2,400 light years from Earth

08.12.09

A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.

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Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying

This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury.

08.10.09

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star.

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Spitzer Sees Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.
Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe

Fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today.
Warmed Up and Ready to Go

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe.
NASA Celebrates Chandra's 10th Anniversary

Ten years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit.
NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.

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NASA'S Kepler Mission Spies Changing Phases in a Distant World

08.06.09 - NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities.
NASA'S Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

08.05.09 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.