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Hover campaign promises bird’s-eye view of Mercury’s surface

General Articles / By / 1 April, 2015

The MESSENGER spacecraft depicted flying over Mercury's surface. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington   The MESSENGER team initiated the “hover” observation campaign, which was designed to gather data from the planet at ultra-low altitudes until the last possible moment. By Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, Maryland | Published: Thursday, …

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Spooky alignment of quasars across billions of light-years

General Articles / By / 30 November, 2014

This artist's impression shows schematically the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures that they inhabit that observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed. These alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the universe. The large-scale structure is shown in blue and quasars are …

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