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  NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto

  July 20, 2011 — Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite -- temporarily designated P4 -- was uncovered in a Hubble survey ... > full story
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  Rendezvous With an Asteroid: NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Near-Earth Asteroid in 2016

  May 26, 2011 — NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called ... > full story
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  Astronomers Can Tune in to Radio Auroras to Find Exoplanets

  April 18, 2011 — Detecting exoplanets that orbit at large distances from their star remains a challenge for planet hunters. Now, scientists have shown that emissions from the radio aurora of planets like Jupiter ... > full story
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  How Saturn's Moon Iapetus Got Its Ridge

  December 13, 2010 — Two scientists propose an explanation for the bizarre ridge belting Saturn's moon Iapetus at the equator. At one time Iapetus itself may have had a satellite, created by a giant impact with another ... > full story
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  Student-Built Dust Counter Breaks Distance Record on New Horizons Mission to Pluto

  October 12, 2010 — A space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector ever to ... > full story
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  Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects

  September 13, 2010 — Beyond the orbit of Neptune reside countless icy rocks known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). One of the biggest, Pluto, is classified as a dwarf planet. The region also supplies us with comets ... > full story
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  Asteroid Found in Gravitational 'Dead Zone' Near Neptune

  August 12, 2010 — There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable, called Lagrangian points. Trojan asteroids have been ... > 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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  New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes

  February 4, 2010 — NASA has released the most detailed set of images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world ... > full story
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  Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Shedding Light On Permanently Shadowed Regions Of The Moon

  September 17, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ... > full story

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