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University Of Iowa Space Physicist Fails To Find Evidence Of Lightning On Venus
January 18, 2001 In an article published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Nature, University of Iowa space physicist Donald Gurnett says that a search for lightning on Venus in 1998 and 1999 using the Cassini ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Apparent "Outer Edge" To The Solar System
October 30, 2000 Our solar system may have an outer "edge" just outside the orbit of Pluto, astronomers announced recently. Their results suggest that early in the history of the solar system, some event ... > full story -
Recipe For Neptune Revealed By Scientists
October 27, 2000 What do you get if you mix together one part helium and five-and-a-half parts hydrogen, add a dash of methane, heat to 60 Kelvins (-351 degrees F) and let sit for over four billion years? If you made ... > full story -
Jupiter's Atmosphere Gives Clues On How Solar System Started
November 17, 1999 A new analysis of data collected by the Galileo spacecraft's suicide plunge into Jupiter's roiling atmosphere has stamped a huge question mark over the prevailing models of how our solar ... > full story -
Some Of Best Earth-Bound Images Yet Of Distant Planet Neptune Captured By Cornell-Designed Camera On Palomar Telescope
October 20, 1999 The heavens are sharper than ever before to the Earth-bound watcher, thanks to astronomers at Cornell University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Cornell researchers have built an ... > full story -
Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage For Planet Birth In New Hubble Images
February 10, 1999 Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are giving astronomers a new look at what may be the early formative stages of planetary systems. Although these pictures from ... > full story -
Hubble Provides A Moving Look At Neptune's Stormy Disposition
October 14, 1998 Using powerful ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the wildest, weirdest weather in the solar system. Combining simultaneous observations of Neptune ... > full story -
Hubble Space Telescope Helps Find Evidence That Neptune’s Largest Moon Is Warming Up
June 25, 1998 Observations obtained by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager ... > full story
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