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• XMM-Newton discovers the star that everyone missed
  (July 18th 2008)

• Moons in Transit [Cassini image]
  (July 18th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 07/09/08 - 07/15/08
  (July 18th 2008)

• NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
  (July 18th 2008)

• Mountain of Ice [Cassini image]
  (July 17th 2008)

• Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter
  (July 17th 2008)

• Closing in on Venus
  (July 17th 2008)

• NASA Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars
  (July 17th 2008)

• A New Way to Weigh Giant Black Holes
  (July 17th 2008)

• Mars Express to rendezvous with Martian moon
  (July 16th 2008)

• NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
  (July 16th 2008)

• Brightest Star in the Galaxy has New Competition
  (July 16th 2008)

• Beyond the Limb [Cassini image]
  (July 16th 2008)

• Peace Above, Turmoil Below [Cassini image]
  (July 16th 2008)

• Leading Hemisphere [Cassini image]
  (July 16th 2008)

• Echus Chasma
  (July 14th 2008)

• Phoenix Descent with Color and the Heat Shield in Free-Fall [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 12th 2008)

• Utopia Planitia LandformsFall in Hellas Basin [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 12th 2008)

• Geologic Contacts in Juventae Chasma [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 12th 2008)

• Fall in Hellas Basin [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 12th 2008)

• What's Wrong with the Sun?
  (July 12th 2008)

• NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope
  (July 12th 2008)

• Spokes on the Wheel [Cassini image]
  (July 12th 2008)

• Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found In Distant Universe
  (July 12th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 06/28/08 - 07/08/08
  (July 12th 2008)

• Crescent Enceladus [Cassini image]
  (July 12th 2008)

• What's My Age? Mystery Star Cluster Has 3 Different Birthdays
  (July 12th 2008)

• Perturbed Edge [Cassini image]
  (July 9th 2008)

• Odysseus the Great [Cassini image]
  (July 9th 2008)

• Rough Around the Edges [Cassini image]
  (July 9th 2008)

• Mystery Mounds in Southern Acidalia Planitia [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 7th 2008)

• TARs and Unusual Star Ripples [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 7th 2008)

• Subchannels in Kasei Valles [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 7th 2008)

• Lineated Valley Fill in Coloe Fossae [MRO HiRISE image]
  (July 7th 2008)

• Banded Moon [Cassini image]
  (July 6th 2008)

• Rugged Janus [Cassini image]
  (July 4th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 06/24/08 - 06/27/08
  (July 4th 2008)

• Ulysses hanging on valiantly
  (July 4th 2008)

• Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter
  (July 4th 2008)

• MESSENGER Settles old Debates and Makes new Discoveries at Mercury
  (July 4th 2008)

• Paisley Skies [Cassini image]
  (July 2nd 2008)

• Voyager pictures reveal Solar System is egg-shaped
  (July 2nd 2008)

• STEREO Creates First Images of the Solar System's Invisible Frontier
  (July 2nd 2008)

• Streaming Away [Cassini image]
  (July 2nd 2008)

• Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks
  (July 1st 2008)

• NASA Goddard Has More Than a Dozen Exciting Missions in Next Year
  (July 1st 2008)

• Chasing Away the Blues [Cassini image]
  (June 30th 2008)

• 100 Years of Space Rock: The Tunguska Impact
  (June 28th 2008)

• A Crater Superposed on Chaotic Terrain Near the Head of a Dao Vallis Branch [MRO HiRISE Image]
  (June 28th 2008)

• Volcanic and Clay Materials Near Nili Fossae [MRO HiRISE Image]
  (June 28th 2008)

• Indicators of Recent Winds on Mars [MRO HiRISE Image]
  (June 28th 2008)

• Layers at Margin of Hellas Impact Basin [MRO HiRISE Image]
  (June 28th 2008)

• Polygons, Crater Layers, and Defrosting Dunes [MRO HiRISE Image]
  (June 28th 2008)

• Cassini to Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, but New Questions Await!'
  (June 28th 2008)

• Storms of the High North [Cassini image]
  (June 28th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 06/18/08 - 06/23/08
  (June 28th 2008)

• Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland
  (June 28th 2008)

• Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth
  (June 27th 2008)

• SOHO discovers its 1500th comet
  (June 27th 2008)

• On the South Side [Cassini image]
  (June 26th 2008)

• Stephen Hawking's explosive new theory
  (June 26th 2008)

• Regulus: Just when you think you know a star
  (June 26th 2008)

• NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps
  (June 26th 2008)

• NASA Spacecraft Reveal Largest Crater in Solar System
  (June 26th 2008)

• Galaxy map hints at fractal universe
  (June 25th 2008)

• Swirling Storms [Cassini image]
  (June 25th 2008)

• Behind the Veil [Cassini image]
  (June 25th 2008)

• Stellar Lightweight Causes a Mysteriously Massive Explosion
  (June 25th 2008)

• Bright Lines, Dark Canvas [Cassini image]
  (June 23rd 2008)

• XMM-Newton watches lazy pulsar being jazzed up by companion
  (June 23rd 2008)

• NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water
  (June 22nd 2008)

• Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
  (June 22nd 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 06/11/08 - 06/17/08
  (June 20th 2008)

• Tight Spiral [Cassini image]
  (June 20th 2008)

• Ragged Crescent [Cassini image]
  (June 20th 2008)

• Stellar Horizon [Cassini image]
  (June 18th 2008)

• Crater Comparison [Cassini image]
  (June 18th 2008)

• A Trio of Super-Earths: A harvest of low-mass exoplanets discovered with HARPS
  (June 18th 2008)

• June 2008 PDS Release [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 17th 2008)

• Layered Rocks in Iani Chaos [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 17th 2008)

• Slope Streaks in Unnamed Crater in Amazonis Region [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 17th 2008)

• Buttes and Knobs in Cydonia Region [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 17th 2008)

• Structure Along the Edge [Cassini image]
  (June 16th 2008)

• Forgotten source sheds light on missing supernovae
  (June 16th 2008)

• NASA Finds New Type of Comet Dust Mineral
  (June 16th 2008)

• Detective astronomers unearth hidden celestial gem
  (June 15th 2008)

• Wrinkle Ridges in Western Elysium Planitia [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 14th 2008)

• Proposed MSL Landing Site in Holden Crater [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 14th 2008)

• Awakening Dunes [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 14th 2008)

• North Polar Layered Deposits [MRO HiRISE image]
  (June 14th 2008)

• Integral reveals exotic and dusty binary systems
  (June 14th 2008)

• NASA Scientists Pioneer Method for Making Giant Lunar Telescopes
  (June 14th 2008)

• Hubble's Sweeping View of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies
  (June 13th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 06/04/08 - 06/10/08
  (June 13th 2008)

• Icy Oasis [Cassini image]
  (June 13th 2008)

• Pan's Gap [Cassini image]
  (June 13th 2008)

• Distant Moon [Cassini image]
  (June 11th 2008)

• Broken Ice [Cassini image]
  (June 11th 2008)

• W28: A Mixed Bag of Supernova Remnant
  (June 11th 2008)

• Milky Way's Inner Beauty Revealed
  (June 11th 2008)

• White Dwarf Lost in Planetary Nebula
  (June 11th 2008)

• Milky Way Mapping Project Finds Surprisingly Slow Stars
  (June 11th 2008)

• Famous Supernovae Still Echo Across the Milky Way
  (June 11th 2008)

• F Ring Close-up [Cassini image]
  (June 9th 2008)

• Canyons' End [Cassini image]
  (June 8th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 05/28/08 - 06/03/08
  (June 8th 2008)

• Cassini sees collisions of moonlets on Saturn's ring
  (June 8th 2008)

• Raging Planet [Cassini image]
  (June 8th 2008)

• Spotting Prometheus [Cassini image]
  (June 8th 2008)

• Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere
  (June 8th 2008)

• Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy
  (June 8th 2008)

• Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing
  (June 8th 2008)

• Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star
  (June 8th 2008)

• New details on venusian clouds revealed
  (June 2nd 2008)

• Shadows of Janus [Cassini image]
  (June 2nd 2008)

• Scientists Hold Séance for Supernova
  (June 2nd 2008)

• Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star
  (June 2nd 2008)

• Famous Supernovae Still Echo Across the Milky Way
  (June 1st 2008)

• Solar Eruption Seen in Unprecedented Detail
  (June 1st 2008)

• Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection
  (June 1st 2008)

• The Behemoth Has a Thick Belt: Astronomers resolve torus around star in another galaxy
  (June 1st 2008)

• A Capital Storm
  (May 30th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 05/21/08 - 05/27/08
  (May 30th 2008)

• Splinter of Light [Cassini image]
  (May 30th 2008)

• Pan in the Driver's Seat [Cassini image]
  (May 30th 2008)

• Gullies of Crater Wall in Terra Sirenum [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Channel into Jezero Crater Delta [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Young Impact Crater in Isidis [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Ridges in Huo Hsing Vallis [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Deep Clouds [Cassini image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Lunar GRAIL
  (May 28th 2008)

• The Ringsmith [Cassini image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• New Red Spot Appears on Jupiter
  (May 28th 2008)

• Exoplanet hunt update

• 100 Explosions on the Moon
  (May 28th 2008)

• Catastrophic Flood Channel of Ares Valles [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Meridiani Region Layers and Phyllosilicates [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Light-Toned Rocks Exposed inside Crater [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Wrinkle Ridge in Hesperia Planum [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 28th 2008)

• Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web
  (May 28th 2008)

• Phoenix Images
  (May 26th 2008)

• First images from Phoenix Mars lander
  (May 26th 2008)

• NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing
  (May 26th 2008)

• Mars Express supports Phoenix Mars landing
  (May 26th 2008)

• NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Lands at Martian Arctic Site
  (May 26th 2008)

• The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare
  (May 26th 2008)

• Northward Through the Rings [Cassini image]
  (May 25th 2008)

• Atlas and Daphnis [Cassini image]
  (May 25th 2008)

• Revealing Saturn's Colors [Cassini image]
  (May 25th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 05/14/08 - 05/20/08
  (May 25th 2008)

• Impact Craters [Cassini image]
  (May 25th 2008)

• Tectonics on Titan [Cassini image]
  (May 25th 2008)

• Cassini Maps of Saturn's Moons Provide Guideposts for Future Explorers
  (May 25th 2008)

• NASA Satellite Finds Interior of Mars Is Colder
  (May 25th 2008)

• Spitzer Finds Cosmic Neon's Sweet Spot

• Crater in martian valley Mamers Valles
  (May 25th 2008)

• Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere
  (May 24th 2008)

• Galactic Hunt Bags Missing Supernova
  (May 24th 2008)

• Chandra Uncovers Youngest Supernova in Our Galaxy
  (May 24th 2008)

• Water on Mars
  (May 18th 2008)

• NASA Briefings and TV Coverage Schedule for Phoenix Mars Landing
  (May 17th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 05/07/08 - 05/13/08
  (May 17th 2008)

• Impact on the Ice [Cassini image]
  (May 17th 2008)

• Ringcraft [Cassini image]
  (May 17th 2008)

• On the Border [Cassini image]
  (May 17th 2008)

• New Software Brings the Universe to Your Computer
  (May 17th 2008)

• Phoenix Landing Events Schedule
  (May 17th 2008)

• NASA Phoenix Mission Ready for Mars Landing
  (May 17th 2008)

• A Molecular Thermometer for the Distant Universe
  (May 17th 2008)

• Frosted Crater Near Mars' North Pole [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Jointed Rocks Near Nilosyrtis Mensae [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Eroded Crater Slopes in Ancient Noachis Region [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Lava Stratigraphy in the Flanks of Olympus Mons [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to Mars
  (May 11th 2008)

• South on Rhea [Cassini image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 04/30/08 - 05/06/08
  (May 11th 2008)

• Moons that Pass in the Night [Cassini image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Dark Boundary [Cassini image]
  (May 11th 2008)

• Saturn Does the Wave In Upper Atmosphere
  (May 7th 2008)

• Dark Boundary
  (May 7th 2008)

• XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe
  (May 7th 2008)

• A Super Solar Flare
  (May 7th 2008)

• Ancient Plains of Rhea [Cassini image]
  (May 7th 2008)

• Saturn's Watch Spiral [Cassini image]
  (May 7th 2008)

• Exposed Layers in Crater Wall Near Mawrth Vallis [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 5th 2008)

• Segment of a Crater Ray [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 5th 2008)

• Defrosting Dunes in the North Polar Sand Sea [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 5th 2008)

• Ejecta Blanket of an Impact Crater [MRO HiRISE image]
  (May 5th 2008)

• Solar Games at Paranal
  (May 3rd 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 04/23/08 - 04/29/08
  (May 3rd 2008)

• Beauty Marks [Cassini image]
  (May 3rd 2008)

• Scrambled Edge [Cassini image]
  (May 3rd 2008)

• Spitzer Spots Ancient Cosmic Urban Sprawl
  (May 3rd 2008)

• Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue
  (April 30th 2008)

• Ring Escort [Cassini image]
  (April 30th 2008)

• The Orbiting Fleet [Cassini image]
  (April 30th 2008)

• Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch
  (April 30th 2008)

• NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm [Cassini-Huygens site]

• NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm [JPL]
  (April 30th 2008)

• Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars
  (April 30th 2008)

• Oldest Known Objects Are Surprisingly Immature
  (April 30th 2008)

• Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space
  (April 30th 2008)

• F Ring Informants [Cassini image]
  (April 28th 2008)

• Mercury Features Receive New Names
  (April 28th 2008)

• The Light of Night [Cassini image]
  (April 27th 2008)

• River delta in Nepenthes Mensae
  (April 27th 2008)

• Plethora of interacting galaxies on Hubble's birthday [ESA]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Cosmic Collisions Galore! [Hubblesite]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Cassini Significant Events 04/16/08 - 04/22/08
  (April 27th 2008)

• Pulling Away [Cassini image]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Proposed MSL Landing Site: Eberswalde Crater [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Craters Within a Crater [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Proposed MSL Landing Site: Mawrth Vallis - Ellipse 4 [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Layered Sediments in Hellas Planitia [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 27th 2008)

• Shoulder Motor Balks on Opportunity's Robotic Arm
  (April 27th 2008)

• Dione: North Polar View [Cassini image]
  (April 23rd 2008)

• Roche Division [Cassini image]
  (April 23rd 2008)

• Soaring Over Rhea [Cassini image]
  (April 23rd 2008)

• Gullies in Utopia Planitia [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 19th 2008)

• Large Southern Hemisphere Gully [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 19th 2008)

• Proposed MSL Landing Site in Eberswalde Crater [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 19th 2008)

• Proposed MSL Landing Site in Mawrth Vallis - Ellipse 2 [MRO HiRISE image]
  (April 19th 2008)

• Solar flares set the Sun quaking
  (April 19th 2008)

• SOHO confirms 36 year old solar theory
  (April 19th 2008)