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  Radio Active Brown Dwarfs Are A New Class Of Pulsar

  April 19, 2007 — A study of brown dwarfs has revealed that these "failed stars" can possess powerful magnetic fields and emit lighthouse beams of radio waves thousands of times brighter than any detected from the ... > full story
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  Rosetta And New Horizons Watch Jupiter

  March 30, 2007 — ESA's Rosetta and NASA's New Horizons are working together to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta's Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data quality is ... > full story
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  Chandra Examines Jupiter During New Horizons Approach

  March 2, 2007 — On Feb. 28, 2007, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its ultimate journey to Pluto. This flyby gave scientists a unique opportunity to study Jupiter using the ... > full story
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  NASA Spacecraft Gets Boost From Jupiter For Pluto Encounter

  February 28, 2007 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Jupiter early this morning (Feb. 28), using the massive planet's gravity to pick up speed for its 3-billion mile voyage to Pluto and ... > full story
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  Jupiter's Moon Europa Should Be NASA's Next Target, Says Researcher

  February 20, 2007 — As NASA develops its next "flagship" mission to the outer solar system, Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa should be the target, says Arizona State University professor Ronald Greeley. Although Europa ... > full story
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  Many Moons: Space Scientists Ponder Which Jupiter Moon Will Reveal The Most

  February 10, 2007 — According to William B. McKinnon, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, the community suffers from an embarrassment of riches, because each of the moons of ... > full story
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  Hubble Probes Layer-Cake Structure Of Alien World's Atmosphere

  January 31, 2007 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Hubble discovered a dense upper layer ... > full story
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  Zooming To Pluto, New Horizons Spacecraft Approaches Jupiter

  January 19, 2007 — Just a year after it was dispatched on the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the APL-built New Horizons spacecraft is on the doorstep of the solar system's largest planet -- about to swing ... > full story
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  NASA Spacecraft En Route To Pluto Prepares For Jupiter Encounter

  January 18, 2007 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on the doorstep of the solar system's largest planet. The spacecraft will study and swing past Jupiter, increasing speed on its voyage toward Pluto, the Kuiper Belt ... > full story
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  Jupiter's Little Red Spot Growing Stronger

  October 13, 2006 — The highest wind speeds in Jupiter's Little Red Spot have increased and are now equal to those in its older and larger sibling, the Great Red Spot, according to observations with NASA's Hubble Space ... > full story

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