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Asteroid Vesta in video from Dawn spacecraft
A video lets us begin to glimpse surface details on the giant asteroid Vesta, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft heads in for a final approach.
June 14, 2011
Vesta and Ceres targets of Dawn spacecraft
Chris Russell on NASA's Dawn mission to orbit around two of the biggest bodies in the asteroid belt: Ceres and Vesta. First stop Vesta in July 2011.
June 14, 2011
Two monster black holes active in nearby galaxy
A second supersized black hole has been discovered at the heart of a nearby galaxy - Markarian 739 - already known to be sporting one.
June 13, 2011
Watch a solar flare happen
Check out this video from NASA of the June 7, 2011 solar flare. Watch it happen!
June 12, 2011
Froth of magnetic bubbles at edge of solar system
Voyager mission scientists say these spacecraft have sent back big news from the edge of our solar system: it's bubbly out there.
June 9, 2011
Supernova 1987A remnant lights up
Supernova 1987A has become the youngest supernova remnant visible to us.
June 9, 2011
Giant black holes and their eating habits
Astrophysicists have scrutinized X-rays from accretion disks surrounding eight black holes and confirmed differences between black hole observation and theory.
June 8, 2011
Dramatic solar flare June 7, 2011. Aurora alert
On June 7, 2011, a solar flare caused a large cloud of particles on the sun to mushroom up, then fall back, looking as if it covered almost half the solar surface.
June 8, 2011
Voyager leaving sun for interstellar space
NASA's Voyager mission is headed where no spacecraft has gone before, beyond the space bubble that contains our solar system.
June 6, 2011
Best image yet of Milky Way twin
Astronomers say NGC 6744 - a beautiful spiral galaxy - is a twin to our home galaxy, the Milky Way. If so, we must have a similarly lovely home in space.
June 1, 2011
