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2008-12-03 17:30:00

NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite rocketed into space in 2004 on a mission to study some of the highest-energy events in the universe. In that time, Swift also has observed 80 exploding stars and studied six comets.

2007-08-22 12:45:00

Observational and theoretical studies of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of ESAâ€™s Rosetta mission, are building a detailed portrait of the cometâ€™s nucleus as it travels around the Sun.

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2005-01-12 08:15:00

When our solar system was young, its biggest babies -- Jupiter and Saturn -- threw tantrums by the trillion. The huge planets hurled ice-covered rocky bodies from the inner solar system far past the orbit of Pluto.

2005-01-07 07:50:00

A cloud of gas bigger than the planet Jupiter, glowing alien green, is about to sweep past the Seven Sisters in Taurus. Got binoculars? You can watch it happen. On Friday night, January 7th, Comet Machholz visits the Pleiades.

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