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Kepler Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space
Here's your chance to have your name on board the spacecraft that could discover the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system. (May 5)
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artist concept of Kepler NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space
Here's your chance to have your name on board the spacecraft that could discover the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system.
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(May 5)

ultraviolet view of galaxy M106 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space
Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light.
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(Apr. 28)

Arp 148 Wild Galaxies Collide
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 18th anniversary with a new collection of images showcasing colliding galaxies, including some captured by JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
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(Apr. 24)

cluster brimming with millions of stars Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere
Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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(Apr. 10)

powerful gamma ray burst Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion
JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an optical image of what was a titanic gamma-ray blast.
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(Apr. 10)

artist concept of extrasolar planet HD 189733b Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet
A team of astronomers, led by JPL's Mark Swain, has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star.
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(Mar. 19)

Mark Swain JPL's Mark Swain: Expert on Exoplanets and Espresso
Coffee is one of the tools that Mark Swain, a JPL research scientist, uses to stay sharp when he studies exoplanets, or planets around other stars.
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(Mar. 19)

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Explore strange new worlds with this continuously updated database of all known planets beyond our solar system.
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Uses ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
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Keck Interferometer
Links two 10-meter (33-foot) telescopes, which form the world's most powerful optical telescope system.
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Spitzer Space Telescope
Uses infrared technology to study celestial objects that are too cool, too dust-enshrouded or too far away to otherwise be seen.
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Ulysses
Orbits sun around the north and south poles.
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Voyager to the Outer Planets
Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is now approaching interstellar space.
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Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
This camera, designed and built at JPL, served as the main camera capturing pictures on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It still takes images of planets, stars and galaxies.
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FUTURE MISSIONS

Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer
Two telescopes on Mount Graham, Ariz., will identify faint dust clouds around other stars that might hinder planet-finding missions. Managed by Univ. of Arizona, Tucson.
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Herschel Space Observatory
Space-based telescope that will study the universe by the light of the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the spectrum.
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Kepler Mission
Mission will search for Earth-like planets with the "transit" method.
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Mid Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is designed to study the earliest galaxies and some of the first stars formed after the Big Bang. JPL is managing the development of the Mid Infrared Instrument, one of the three focal plane istruments on the infrared space telescope.
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Space-based telescope will scan the entire sky in infrared light, revealing cool stars, planetary construction zones and the brightest galaxies in the universe.
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Space Interferometry Mission
This mission is an orbiting interferometer, which will link multiple telescopes to function in unison as a much larger "virtual telescope."
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