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• Book Review: Planetary Tectonics examines otherworldly landforms

  5 April 2010

  

   

• At 1,500,000 mph, twin stars in the constellation Cancer win speediest orbit award

  11 March 2010

  

   

• Ancient star discovered through patience and clever use of technology

  5 March 2010

  

   

• Mergers of dense stellar remnants are likely trigger for many supernovae

  24 February 2010

  

   

• Double Black-Hole Mystery: Dance Partners or Breakup Survivors?

  4 February 2010

  

   

• Astronomers Find Rare Supernova by New Means

  28 January 2010

  

   

• Meteorite that fell in Lorton, Va., identified by Smithsonian scientists

  25 January 2010

  

   

• Distant, dying star gives astronomers preview of the fate of our Sun

  5 January 2010

  

   

• Smithsonian geophysicist Bruce Campbell explains his work of making a detailed radar map of the Moon

  28 December 2009

  

   

• Chandra X-Ray Observatory podcast: The crab nebula

  15 December 2009

  

   

• New Acquisition: Corrective instruments from the Hubble Space Telescope

  7 December 2009

  

   

• Radio telescopes give astronomers rare glimpse at a young protostar’s formation

  16 November 2009

  

   

• Telescope array finds new evidence that exploding stars are sources of cosmic rays

  10 November 2009

  

   

• The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opens new Public Observatory on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

  30 September 2009

  

   

• Astronomers solve mystery of dusty foot trails crossing telescope mirrors

  9 September 2009

  

   

• Cosmic “baby photos” of distant solar systems lend insight as to how planets form

  19 August 2009