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• NASA funds Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory instrument to track North American air pollution

  28 November 2012

  

   

• Cygnus OB2: Probing a nearby stellar cradle

  8 November 2012

  

   

• Galactic thief: “I would have gotten away with it but for those meddling astronomers!”

  1 November 2012

  

   

• Female “spidernaut” settles into new home at Smithsonian’s Insect Zoo

  29 October 2012

  

   

• Split-personality elliptical galaxy holds a hidden spiral

  25 October 2012

  

   

• First of seven mirrors completed for Giant Magellan Telescope

  24 October 2012

  

   

• Chandra X-ray Observatory shows Milky Way is surrounded by halo of hot gas

  24 September 2012

  

   

• Planets can form in the galactic center

  11 September 2012

  

   

• Dying star illuminates distant galaxy, lifting veil of interstellar darkness for astronomers

  30 August 2012

  

   

• Planetary system orbiting two suns discovered by astronomers

  30 August 2012

  

   

• “Ignition Sequence,” by Vincent Cavallaro

  17 August 2012

  

   

• Recreating a slice of the universe

  15 August 2012

  

   

• Largest ever 3D map of the sky released by astronomers

  9 August 2012

  

   

• A bubbling cauldron of star birth

  3 August 2012

  

   

• Astronomers discover X-rays from a young supernova remnant

  31 July 2012

  

   

• Astronomers release highest-resolution images ever of the Sun’s corona

  20 July 2012