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Space News Archive - June 12, 2012

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NASA said that its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun on March 7.

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A research team just recently finished up counting, outlining and cataloging the 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a half-mile in diameter.

Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space?

Growth Found to be Out of Synch For Black Hole

New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.

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Japanese astronomers say they have discovered the oldest and most distant galaxy in the universe using a telescope on the Big Island of Hawaii, a finding that challenges other “earliest galaxy” claims.

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The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) has been given the go-ahead by the organization overseeing the project to move on with it.