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NASA's Spitzer Uncovers Hints Of Mega Solar Systems
February 8, 2006 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust. The findings surprised astronomers because stars as big as ... > full story -
Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting To Seem Typical
January 11, 2006 In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth's own moon was ... > full story -
Measuring Charon: Astronomers Seize Rare Opportunity
January 5, 2006 Being in the right place at the right time gave a group of Massachusetts research astronomers a unique opportunity to study Pluto's largest moon Charon. The resulting measurements, to unprecedented ... > full story -
University Of Colorado Student-Built Instrument Set To Launch On Pluto Mission
December 28, 2005 The University of Colorado at Boulder's long heritage with NASA planetary missions will continue Jan. 17 with the launch of a student space dust instrument on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto from ... > full story -
Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
October 31, 2005 Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons ... > full story -
Tenth Planet Has A Moon
October 3, 2005 The newly discovered 10th planet, 2003 UB313, is looking more and more like one of the solar system's major players. It has the heft of a real planet (latest estimates put it at about 20 percent ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Solar System's Tenth Planet -- Bigger Than Pluto
July 29, 2005 A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of the solar system. The planet was discovered using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif. ... > full story -
NASA's Hubble Chases Unruly Planet
June 22, 2005 A detailed image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on a dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut ... > full story -
Journey Begins For NASA's New Horizons Probe; APL-Built Pluto Mission Spacecraft Shipped To NASA Goddard For Pre-Launch Tests
June 14, 2005 The first spacecraft designed to study Pluto took the first steps on a long journey when it was shipped to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for its next round of pre-launch ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is A Member Of Saturn Family
May 7, 2005 Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. Phoebe was left behind from the solar nebula, the cloud of ... > full story
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