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Deborah Byrd
Last best look at Pluto’s farside
A cool New Horizons image of the side of Pluto the spacecraft won't see as it sweeps past. Likely our last, best look for decades to come!
July 14, 2015
Will James Webb Telescope find new Earths?
If we took Earth and Venus - and had them orbit a cool, red star not too far away - could the James Webb Space Telescope tell which planet was habitable?
July 11, 2015
Cosmologists look beyond Standard Model
Cosmology - the science of the origin and development of the universe - has made progress in recent years. But many questions remain unanswered.
July 10, 2015
Strongest magnets make biggest cosmic explosions
In other words, magnetars - tiny neutron stars that are the strongest magnets in the universe - power long-duration gamma-ray bursts.
July 10, 2015
Galactic radio jets and dark matter
The afterglow of the Big Bang points to invisible dark matter, in places where galactic jets travel at near light speed.
July 10, 2015
Noctilucent clouds and rising moon
These clouds - sometimes called night-shining clouds - are thought to be made of ice crystals that form on fine dust particles from meteors.
July 10, 2015
Best photos: Venus and Jupiter June 2015
People around the world are capturing the very bright planets Venus and Jupiter as they draw closer in the west after sunset this month.
July 8, 2015
Galactic fireworks
Here's a composite image of Messier 106, known for its strange spiral arms, located 23 million light years away.
July 4, 2015
Stars’ spiral arms cradle baby planets
A new theoretical model focuses on the spiral arms now known to exist around some young stars. The spiral arms may enable rocky planets like Earth to form.
July 2, 2015
