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• Sun’s loops are displaying an optical illusion

  9 July 2013

  

   

• NASA launches IRIS carrying Smithsonian-built telescope

  3 July 2013

  

   

• First transiting planets in a star cluster discovered

  1 July 2013

  

   

• Air and Space Museum receives $6 million donation for Public Observatory Program

  26 June 2013

  

   

• Three Smithsonian scientists to participate in Aspen Ideas Festival

  24 June 2013

  

   

• Solar splashdown

  21 June 2013

  

   

• Dust trap around distant star may unlock mystery as to how planets form

  14 June 2013

  

   

• Chandra X-ray Observatory turns up black hole bonanza in galaxy next door

  14 June 2013

  

   

• Cat’s Paw Nebula “littered” w/ baby stars

  6 June 2013

  

   

• Young star suggests our sun was a feisty toddler

  6 June 2013

  

   

• Music of the Spheres: Star Songs

  30 May 2013

  

   

• A meteorite explodes on the Moon: Q&A with geophysicist Bruce Campbell

  30 May 2013

  

   

• Black-hole powered jets plow into galaxy

  20 May 2013

  

   

• New method of finding planets scores first discovery

  13 May 2013

  

   

• Astronomers discover two water worlds orbiting star Kepler-62

  19 April 2013

  

   

• Giant Magellan Telescope

  17 April 2013