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Baby stars and cosmic votes: The week in space

By Maggie Mckee

7 November 2008

�鶹��ý. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine. — Astronauts Greg Chamitoff and Mike Fincke voted in this week’s historic US election from the International Space Station
(Image: NASA TV)

View a gallery of images that include stellar baby booms in a nearby dwarf galaxy and US astronauts who cast their votes from the space station.

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