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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    New measurements give the farthest look yet into the universe, plus more in this week's news.

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  2. Space

    ‘Deep Impact’ comet revisited

    NASA takes pictures of Tempel 1 five years after shooting it with a probe.

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  3. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Jupiter's bold stripe is back, plus more in this week's news.

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  4. Space

    Black holes take light for a spin

    Reseearchers say they have found a way to directly observe the existence of spinning black holes.

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  5. Space

    Milky Way munched on galactic snack

    The galaxy appears to have gobbled up stars from another galaxy 700 million years ago, and may still have an appetite.

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  6. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    How the moon got its water, plus more in this week’s news.

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  7. Space

    The sun, captured from all the angles

    NASA reveals the first 360-degree panorama of the sun, which should enable early detection of potentially damaging solar storms.

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  8. Astronomy

    Supernova to superfluid

    Neutron stars, some of the densest objects in the universe, may be cooled by frictionless liquid sloshing in their cores.

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  9. Space

    First stars may still shine

    Simulations suggest some slow-burning remnants of the early universe may still exist.

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  10. Space

    Spacecraft sees signs of 1,200-plus worlds

    The Kepler mission releases information on hundreds of newly discovered candidate planets beyond the solar system, including about 50 that could be habitable.

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  11. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Evidence gets stronger that Mars once held an ocean, plus more in this week’s news.

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  12. Space

    A galaxy far, far, far away

    The Hubble space telescope has observed what may be the most distant celestial object ever observed 13.2 billion light-years from Earth.

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