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CAD rendering of a robot assembling a tangle module in space. Additional folded modules are stored in the cargo unit which appears docked to the side of the main body.

A robot will assemble a modular space telescope in orbit

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The "Einstein Ring", as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a phenomenon of gravitational collapse. When a massive mass passes on one axis between a more distant celestial gram and the Earth, the light rays of the more distant gram are bent around the massive mass and form a ring known as the "Einstein Ring" from the perspective of the observer on Earth. Examining slight changes in the gravitational clouding will allow the detection of planets around a star that creates such clouding. Source: NASA.

NASA has announced a new space telescope, WFIRST, to be launched in the next decade

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Illustration illustrating the possible appearance of the planet HD 219134b, a super-Earth that is part of a system with a rocky inner planet and a gaseous outer planet. Photo: University of Geneva

Solar System 2.0 - four planets discovered around a star 21 light years away, arranged like in our solar system

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A view of a cluster of young stars (million years old), known as the North American Nebula or the Plesian Nebula (top right). This is a clean and processed version of the original Spitzer Space Telescope image. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Illustration: shutterstock

New video: A high-resolution tour of the center of the Milky Way

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Illustration: Earth (left) and the 452% larger planet Kepler 60b. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

The discovery of the "Ben David" planet of the Earth by the Kepler space telescope has been confirmed

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A symbol of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. Image: NASA

The Hubble Space Telescope has changed and continues to change our perception of the universe for 25 years

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Prof. Kyle Kramer, New York University. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Turn your mobile phone into a cosmic particle detector

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Pictured: Kepler Hall of Fame: Of the over a thousand confirmed planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope, eight are less than two Earth diameters in diameter and are in the habitable zone of their Sun. All eight orbit stars smaller and colder than the Sun. Image: NASA

Kepler discovered the thousandth planet

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The Cancer Nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005

Why is it not possible to photograph distant celestial objects from Earth, and for this purpose telescopes must be sent into space?

An artist's illustration of a Type Ia supernova. Source: European Space Agency.

Gaia discovered its first supernova 500 million light years away

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A lesson in modesty. Professor Mario Livio Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and J. Coyle Jr. (for STScI)

Man as derivative: a scientific conversation with Professor Mario Livio, senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute

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The number of planet candidates discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope Credit: NASA/SETI/J Rowe

Kepler's New Life / Clara Moskovitch

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In this image, of the gamma-ray burst called GRB 130925A, a sheath of hot X-ray-emitting gas (in red) surrounds a jet of particles (in white) erupting from the star's surface at near the speed of light. This source may be a metal-poor blue giant, a good approximation of the first stars formed in the universe. Image: NASA/Swift/A. Simonnet, Sonoma State Univ.

A burst of gamma rays that lasted almost two hours

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The large galaxy in Andromeda (M81). Photo: shutterstock

The "gamma ray burst" in the Andromeda galaxy turned out to be a false alarm

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Prof. Eli Waxman. Cosmic radiation

How are positrons created in space? When, where and how do they advance in the galaxy?

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Artist's rendering of the brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5. The Sun is the bright star just to the right of the brown dwarf. Image: Robert Hart of JPL, Janella Williams of Pennsylvania State University

A new neighbor to the solar system has been discovered - a cold and dark brown dwarf

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

The next incarnation of the Kepler space telescope / Clara Moskowitz

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A red star near the Solar System as imaged by the Next Generation Digital Sky Survey camera following the WISE survey. Photo: Credit: DSS/NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA: Despite a comprehensive scan of the solar system's environment, Wise did not discover Planet X

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Multiple planets. NASA version

715 new planets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft were confirmed at once, including two slightly larger than Earth in the habitable zones of their suns

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Discovering water on a hook. Eurof European Space Agency

The Herschel Space Telescope discovered water vapor in an asteroid

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Do you see the shape of a hand in the new x-ray image? The hand may look just like an x-ray at the doctor's, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from an exploding star. The array of telescopes capable of nuclear spectroscopy Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR for short (NuSTAR) photographed the structure in the field of high X frequencies for the first time. Earlier image, lower-energy X-rays taken by the Chandra Space Telescope are seen in green and red in the image. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill

The Nostar space telescope photographed the pulsar known as the "Hand of God"

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Another angle of view of the meteor that hit Russia on Friday, 15/2/2013, from a YouTube video

The events of 2013 in science: the meteorite impact in Russia; The skull in Georgia; home-printed gun;

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European Space Agency poster depicting the Gaia mission

The end of the universe to the left - the Gaia spacecraft was launched to map the Milky Way

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The spaceship Gaia. Figure: European Space Agency

The Gaia spacecraft is expected to revolutionize the understanding of the galaxy

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An alien world with a large moon. Illustration: shutterstock

The breaking dawn over a distant sky / Michael D. Lemonique

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