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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/14hayabusa/">PROBE<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/14hayabusa/">PROBE> BEGINS DARING CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH ASTEROID</a>
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/14boomerang/">HUBBLE<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/14boomerang/">HUBBLE> CATCHES SCATTERED LIGHT FROM THE BOOMERANG</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/11rapidplanets/">RAPID-BORN<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/11rapidplanets/">RAPID-BORN> PLANETS A BABY PICTURE OF EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/10titan/">TITAN<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/10titan/">TITAN> MAY HOLD KEYS FOR EXOTIC BRAND OF LIFE</a>
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A $100 million Japanese space explorer parked in the vicinity of an
enigmatic asteroid this week, allowing scientists to get a first glimpse
of the mid-sized rock that will become the source of the first samples of
such an object to ever be returned to Earth.
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Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite and several ground-based
telescopes have detected the most distant explosion yet, a gamma-ray burst
from the edge of the visible universe.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has "caught" the Boomerang Nebula in these new
images. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric
lobes of matter that are being ejected from a central star. Over the last
1,500 years, nearly one and a half times the mass of our Sun has been lost
by the central star of the Boomerang Nebula in an ejection process known
as a bipolar outflow.
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Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the
University of Rochester has detected gaps ringing the dusty disks around
two very young stars, which suggests that gas-giant planets have formed
there. A year ago, these same researchers found evidence of the first
"baby planet" around a young star, challenging most astrophysicists's
models of giant-planet formation.
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Saturn's moon Titan has long been a place of interest to astrobiologists,
primarily because of its apparent similarities to the early Earth at the
time life first started. A thick atmosphere composed primarily of nitrogen
and abundant organic molecules (the ingredients of life as we know it) are
among the important similarities between these two otherwise dissimilar
planetary bodies.
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The European Space Agency has started a technical investigation into the
Planetary Fourier Spectrometer onboard Mars Express, after a problem
developed in the instrument.
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NASA signed a $68.35 million modification to the International Space
Station contract with The Boeing Company. The modification provides a
system to supply station electrical power to docked space shuttles,
enabling the orbiter to stay longer at the complex.
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NASA named William (Bill) W. Parsons as the new director of NASA's John C.
Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi, effective immediately. Parsons
succeeds retired Rear Admiral Thomas Donaldson, USN. Parsons returns to
the position he held prior to becoming Space Shuttle program manager in
May 2003.
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