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  Chandra Probes High-Voltage Auroras On Jupiter

  March 9, 2005 — Scientists have obtained new insight into the unique power source for many of Jupiter's auroras, the most spectacular and active auroras in the Solar System. Extended monitoring of the giant ... > full story
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  NASA Spacecraft Help Solve Saturn's Mysterious Auroras

  February 18, 2005 — Scientists studying data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope have found that Saturn's auroras behave differently than scientists have believed for the last 25 ... > full story
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  Astronomers Discover Beginnings Of 'Mini' Solar System

  February 8, 2005 — Moons circle planets, and planets circle stars. Now, astronomers have learned that planets may also circle celestial bodies almost as small as planets. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has ... > full story
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  Hubble’s Infrared Eyes Home In On Suspected Extrasolar Planet

  January 11, 2005 — Unique follow up observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively ... > full story
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  Space Scientist Proposes New Model For Jupiter's Core

  December 20, 2004 — After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., ... > full story
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  Rings Around The Planets: Recycling Of Material May Extend Ring Lifetimes

  December 19, 2004 — Although rings around planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are relatively short-lived, new evidence implies that the recycling of orbiting debris can lengthen the lifetime of such rings, ... > full story
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  NASA Selects Contractor For First Prometheus Mission To Jupiter

  September 21, 2004 — The Prometheus JIMO mission is part of an ambitious mission to orbit and explore three planet-sized moons, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa, of Jupiter. The moons may have vast oceans beneath their icy ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover First Of A New Class Of Extrasolar Planets

  August 31, 2004 — Astronomers have announced the first discovery of a new class of planets beyond our solar system about 10 to 20 times the size of Earth - far smaller than any previously detected. The planets make up ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover Ganymede Has A Lumpy Interior

  August 17, 2004 — Scientists have discovered irregular lumps beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. These irregular masses may be rock formations, supported by Ganymede's icy shell for ... > full story
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  Out From The Shadows: Two New Saturnian Moons

  August 17, 2004 — With eyes sharper than any that have peered at Saturn before, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed ... > full story

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