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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Astronomy

    Cool Cosmos: Orbiting telescope views infrared universe

    Astronomers unveiled the first images and spectra taken by the most sensitive and highest-resolution infrared observatory ever sent into space.

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  2. Astronomy

    Cool Cosmos: Orbiting telescope views infrared universe

    Astronomers unveiled the first images and spectra taken by the most sensitive and highest-resolution infrared observatory ever sent into space.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Did rivers once run on the Red Planet?

    A fan-shaped region of debris on Mars is providing new evidence that some places on the Red Planet, now bone-dry, once had long-lasting rivers or lakes.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Did rivers once run on the Red Planet?

    A fan-shaped region of debris on Mars is providing new evidence that some places on the Red Planet, now bone-dry, once had long-lasting rivers or lakes.

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  5. Astronomy

    Breach of the Shield: Magnetic links between sun and Earth last hours

    Once breaches have formed in Earth's protective magnetic field, they persist for many hours, allowing charged particles from the sun to gush through and create electrical disturbances.

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  6. Astronomy

    Spying a planet in star’s dusty veil

    Astronomers blocked out the light of a nearby star and found hints of an orbiting planet.

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  7. Astronomy

    Alien stars pass close to home

    Stars from an alien galaxy are raining down on our own Milky Way and passing just a few hundred light-years from Earth.

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  8. Astronomy

    Solar Flip-Flops: Sun storms spawn magnetic reversal

    Coronal mass ejections, billion-ton clouds of charged particles blasted from the sun, appear to play a key role in reversing the sun's magnetic poles every 11 years.

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  9. Planetary Science

    Martian sand ripples are taller than Earth’s

    New data gathered by a Mars-orbiting probe suggest that large ripples found in sandy areas of the Red Planet are more than twice as tall as their terrestrial counterparts.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Giant picture of a giant planet

    The Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft has taken the sharpest global portrait of Jupiter ever obtained, showing the planet's turbulent atmosphere in true color.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Moonopolies

    Recently discovered tiny satellites, all orbiting the outer planets in strange paths, may shed new light on a critical last phase in the formation of the planets.

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  12. Astronomy

    Sound of the fury

    On Oct. 28, the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft recorded the radio wave "sound" of a powerful solar flare as it raced toward Earth.

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