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Picture of the Day: The Varied Path of a Neutron Star
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope traces the plot of the Vela Pulsar.
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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope traces the plot of the Vela Pulsar.
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Last year was the ninth-warmest on record. Nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred since 2000.
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NASA's Hubble Telescope captures Centaurus A, an elliptical galaxy more than 11 million light years away.
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Commander Dan Burbank said the comet was "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space."
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Because nothing says Merry Christmas like fiber optics
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The first global image from NASA's VIIRS shows what the Earth looked like from 512 miles above on November 24th
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For instruments near Earth, such as Hubble, this galaxy appears at just the right angle for capturing its gigantic swirl
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An image of the Korean peninsula, Japan, and China helps to illustrate how news of Kim Jong-Il's death took two days to come to light
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A stunning image from NASA's Hubble shows the birth of a star with a mass 15 times that of our sun's, and 10,000 times as bright
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When the crews of Gemini VI-A and Gemini VII met up in orbit around the Earth, they shared a bit of Christmas cheer
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Roald Amundsen's team of Norwegians at the South Pole
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An artist makes maps using images from Google Earth, with everything but the people removed
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Johan Blaeu's Grand Atlas shows one of Tyco Brahe's designs for a tool that could measure the orbits of planets
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Pictures of a mineral vein, believed to be gypsum, tell "a slam-dunk story that water flowed" through Martian rock
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Eli Whitney was born on this day in 1765. His cotton gin fueled the growth of the cotton industry, and slavery alongside it.
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Six astronauts show off their behinds while taking a break from flying the X-15, a spaceplane that set records for speed
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NASA confirmed the discovery of an Earth-size planet, orbiting a star at a distance where liquid water could exist
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Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show evidence of large landslides on the steep cliffs of one of the biggest known asteroids
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On December 19, 1972, the last three people to ever set foot on the moon, arrived back on Earth, landing safely in the Pacific Ocean
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Toyota presents a new concept car whose exterior is a screen that users can tailor to their mood
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