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  Hubble Uncovers Smallest Moons Yet Seen Around Uranus

  September 26, 2003 — Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are about 8 to 10 miles across (12 to 16 km) — ... > full story
• Jupiter
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  Galileo Makes Final Plunge Into Jupiter

  September 22, 2003 — The Galileo spacecraft's 14-year odyssey came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 21, when the spacecraft passed into Jupiter's shadow then disintegrated in the planet's dense atmosphere at 11:57 ... > full story
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  Galileo To Taste Jupiter Before Taking Final Plunge

  September 18, 2003 — In the end, the Galileo spacecraft will get a taste of Jupiter before taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21. The team expects the ... > full story
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  Historic Galileo Mission Nears End

  September 15, 2003 — Following eight years of capturing dramatic images and surprising science from Jupiter and its moons, NASA's Galileo mission draws to a close September 21 with a plunge into Jupiter's ... > full story
• Moon
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  New Study Of Europa May Explain Mysterious Ice Domes, Places To Search For Evidence Of Life

  September 3, 2003 — A new University of Colorado at Boulder study of Jupiter's moon Europa may help explain the origin of the giant ice domes peppering its surface and the implications for discovering evidence of ... > full story
• Stars
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  Eris (Xena)
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  Oldest Known Planet Identified

  July 11, 2003 — Long before our Sun and Earth ever existed, a Jupiter-sized planet formed around a sun-like star. Now, 13 billion years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has precisely measured the mass of ... > full story
• Albert Einstein
  Black Holes
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  Berkeley Lab Physicist Challenges Speed Of Gravity Claim

  June 19, 2003 — Albert Einstein may have been right that gravity travels at the same speed as light but, contrary to a claim made earlier this year, the theory has not yet been proven. A scientist at Lawrence ... > full story
• Mars
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  First-Ever Snapshot Released Of Mother Earth From Mars

  May 23, 2003 — Have you ever wondered what you would see if you were on Mars looking at Earth through a small telescope? Now you can find out, thanks to a unique view of our world recently captured by NASA's ... > full story
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  Rising Storms Revise Story Of Jupiter's Stripes

  March 10, 2003 — Pictures of Jupiter, taken by a NASA spacecraft on its way to Saturn, are flipping at least one long-standing notion about Jupiter upside ... > full story
• Space Exploration
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  New Spacecraft Tool Reveals Massive Gas Cloud Around Jupiter

  February 28, 2003 — Using a sensitive new imaging instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, researchers have discovered a large and surprisingly dense gas cloud sharing an orbit with Jupiter's icy moon ... > full story

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