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  Pounding Particles to Create Neptune's Water in the Lab

  July 22, 2010 — An international group of physicists has drawn up plans to use the new Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research in Germany to expose water molecules to heavy ion beams and generate the same level of ... > full story
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  Cometary Impact on Neptune: Herschel Data Point to Collision About Two Centuries Ago

  July 20, 2010 — A comet may have hit the planet Neptune about two centuries ago. This is indicated by the distribution of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the gas giant that researchers have now studied. The ... > full story
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  Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System

  May 7, 2010 — Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data. ... > full story
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  'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer Space Telescope

  April 21, 2010 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system. The discovery brings ... > full story
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  Neptune's Moon Triton: Summer Sky of Methane and Carbon Monoxide

  April 7, 2010 — According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. Astronomers discovered carbon monoxide and made the first ... > full story
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  Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet

  July 9, 2009 — Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new ... > full story
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  Mass-Loss Leaves Close-in Exoplanets Exposed To The Core

  April 21, 2009 — Scientists have found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. They found that planets that orbit closer than 2% of an ... > full story
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  'Super-Neptune' Exoplanet Discovered

  January 21, 2009 — Astronomers have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune has a diameter 3.8 times that of Earth and a mass 17 times ... > full story
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  Wobbly Planets Could Reveal Earth-Like Moons

  December 11, 2008 — Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect. Astronomers have found that such moons can be revealed by looking at wobbles in the velocity ... > full story
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  Deep Interior Of Neptune, Uranus And Earth May Contain Some Solid Ice

  September 23, 2008 — The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ... > full story

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