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Just in time for Thanksgiving, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has harvested a bounty of young stars. A new infrared image of the reflection nebula NGC 1333, located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, reveals dozens of stars like the Sun but much younger.

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Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully launched and placed into a trajectory that will take it to an encounter with Venus by April 2006.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have recorded a massive star moving at more than 2.6 million kilometres per hour (1.6 million mph).

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals billowing mountains of dust ablaze with the fires of stellar youth.

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The telescope will be three times larger than any telescope ever made, and instead of being made from a traditional cylinder it will use a unique panel, similar to a flat screen television.

He was the first man on earth to argue that the sun lay at the center of the universe....

SALT, the South African Large Telescope is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere... <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Space debris prompts UFO reports

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29. The large regional dust storm appears as the brighter, cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

A very massive star collapsed to form a neutron star and not a black hole as anticipated, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows that nature has a harder time making black holes than previously thought. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Astronomers have gotten their deepest glimpse into the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, peering closer to the supermassive black hole at the Galaxy's core then ever before. Using the National Science Foundation's continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), they found that a radio-wave-emitting object at the Galaxy's center would nearly fit between the Earth and the Sun. This is half the size measured in any previous observation. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>