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Signs Changing Fast for Voyager
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
08/11/12 |
| New data from the Voyager 1 spacecraft has revealed that three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the last seven years. Data from Voyager includes measurements of high-energy cosmic rays from outside the Solar System, low-energy particles originating from inside the Solar System, and studies on the direction of the magnetic field |
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Pluto's Fifth Moon
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
07/13/12 |
| Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a fifth moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto. The finding provides additional clues about how the Pluto system formed and evolved. |
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The Heliosphere Bow Shock Does Not Exist
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
05/10/12 |
| A new study reveals that the heliosphere is not preceded by a bow shock as it plows through the gas and dust in interstellar space. |
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Uranus Aurora Glimpsed from Earth
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
04/15/12 |
| For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus. |
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The Rings of Pluto?
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
01/23/12 |
| Like other bodies in the outer Solar System, Pluto may have have rings orbiting it. Finding these rings could be important for the safety of NASA's New Horizons mission - currently en route to the tiny world. |
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Voyager Enters Cosmic Purgatory
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
12/10/11 |
| NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. |
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Pluto's Hidden Ocean
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
11/17/11 |
| NASA's New Horizon mission should be able to learn whether liquid water exists a hundred miles beneath Pluto's surface. |
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Is the Pluto System Dangerous?
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
11/10/11 |
| The New Horizons spacecraft remains healthy as it nears year six of its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system. But when it arrives, will the spacecraft need to dodge Pluto's many moons? |
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Eris is Pluto's Twin
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
10/28/11 |
| Observations of Eris have revealed that, in terms of its size, the dwarf planet is an almost perfect twin of Pluto. |
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