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Cosmology: First stars were born much later than thought Posted: 05 Feb 2015 10:12 AM PST New maps from ESA's Planck satellite uncover the 'polarized' light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought.

March of the moons: Hubble captures rare triple-moon conjunction Posted: 05 Feb 2015 07:19 AM PST NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter's largest moons racing across the banded face of the gas-giant planet: Europa, Callisto, and Io on Jan. 24, 2015.