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Ring Around a Suspected Black Hole in Galaxy NGC 4261

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Starburst Galaxy NGC 3310 Blazes With Star Formation

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Hubble ACS Visible Image of M51

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Dusty Spiral Galaxy NGC 4414

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jupiter-callisto:The Heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy

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Myriad of Stars in Spiral Galaxy NGC 300

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NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules

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Firestorm of Star Birth in Galaxy Centaurus A

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NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to its ultimate destination for science operations, but also closer to the foot of a mountain slope that poses a landing hazard.
“We’re trimming the distance we’ll have to drive after landing by almost half,” said Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “That could get us to the mountain months earlier.”
It was possible to adjust landing plans because of increased confidence in precision landing technology aboard the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, which is carrying the Curiosity rover. That spacecraft can aim closer without hitting Mount Sharp at the center of Gale crater. Rock layers located in the mountain are the prime location for research with the rover.
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Chaos at the Heart of Orion

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Hubble Views Grand Star-Forming Region
This massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in the Milky Way Galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus.

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