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Answer from 'dusty shelf' aids quest to see matter as it was just after big bang.

Scientists, trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe, have run into a mysterious problem -- some of the reactions they are getting don't mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>
With help from America's National Science Foundation, real scientific projects go beyond "cookbook curriculum" and engage students in the unknown.

In the last several years, researchers on NSF-supported projects have found new asteroids, documented diving patterns of sea mammals and located the feeding area of an endangered bird. This is standard science; it is what researchers do. But these researchers were still in school. Some were in the third grade. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>
Space Shuttle Should Conduct Final Servicing Mission To Hubble Space Telescope.

WASHINGTON -- To ensure continuation of the extraordinary scientific output of the Hubble Space Telescope and to prepare for its eventual de-orbiting, NASA should send a space shuttle mission, not a robotic one, says a new congressionally requested report from the National Academies' National Research Council. <b>NOTE: French, German, and Italian translations follow...</b>
Hubble Weighs in on the Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy.

Unlike humans, stars are born with all the weight they will ever have. A human's birth weight varies by just a few pounds, but a star's weight ranges from less than a tenth to more than 100 times the mass of our Sun. Although astronomers know that stars come in a variety of masses, they are still stumped when it comes to figuring out if stars have a weight limit at birth. <b>NOTE: French, German, and Italian translations follow...</b>
Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts

How do you hide something as big and bright as a galaxy? You smother it in cosmic dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope saw through such dust to uncover a hidden population of monstrously bright galaxies approximately 11 billion light-years away. <b>NOTE: French, German, and Italian translations follow...</b>
The Impending Destruction of NGC 1427A

What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example of the resulting stellar rumble. Under the gravitational grasp of a large gang of galaxies, called the Fornax cluster, the small bluish galaxy is plunging headlong into the group at 600 kilometers per second or nearly 400 miles per second. <b>NOTE: French, German, and Italian translations follow...</b>
New theory of how planets form finds havens of stability amid turbulence

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new theory of how planets form finds havens of stability amid violent turbulence in the swirling gas that surrounds a young star. These protected areas are where planets can begin to form without being destroyed. The theory will be published in the February issue of the journal Icarus. <b>NOTE: French, German, and Italian translations follow...</b>
Cassini Captures First-Ever Photographs of Saturn's Radiation Belts

Using an innovative camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists have captured images of a radiation belt inside the rings of Saturn and have the clearest picture yet of the planet’s giant magnetosphere, according to a mid-year report of the spacecraft published today in the journal Science. <b>NOTE: French, German, and Italian translations follow...</b>
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