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Vera Rubin at Lowell Observatory with Kent Ford in white helmet.

November 26, 2013

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Kent Ford & Vera Rubin's Image Tube Spectrograph named in Smithsonian's "101 Objects that Made America"

Artist's conception of a planetary smashup whose debris was spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2009

October 01, 2013

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How old is the moon? About 100 Million Years Younger Than We Once Thought

May 13, 2013

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Long Lost Moon of Jupiter Found