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Astronomers Take “Baby Picture” of an Incredibly Distant Galaxy

June 1, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Astronomers from Arizona State University have grabbed an image of a dim, distant galaxy, seeing it as it looked only 800 million years after the birth of the Universe. Visible above as a green blob in the center of a false-color [...]

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Recent Geologic Activity on the Moon?

February 20, 2012

Recent images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera provide evidence that the lunar crust may be pulling apart in certain areas. The images reveal small trenches less than a kilometer in length, and less than a few hundred meters wide. Only a small number of these features, known as graben, have been discovered on the [...]

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Look Inside a Lunar Crater

April 15, 2011

The crater shown above is located in the lunar highlands and is filled with and surrounded by boulders of all sizes and shapes. It is approximately 550 meters (1800 feet) wide yet is still considered a small crater, and could have been caused by either a direct impact by a meteorite or by an ejected [...]

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