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  New Ways to Measure Magnetism Around the Sun

  July 14, 2011 — NASA researchers have made use of old mathematical techniques and new insights on how coronal mass ejections travel to devise a fresh way to measure this magnetic environment in the sun's upper ... > full story
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  NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15

  July 14, 2011 — On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt ... > full story
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  New Planets Feature Young Star and Twin Neptunes

  July 14, 2011 — Scientists have discovered 10 new planets. Amongst them is one orbiting a star perhaps only a few tens of million years old, twin Neptune-sized planets, and a rare Saturn-like ... > full story
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  Twin ARTEMIS Probes to Study Moon in 3-D

  July 13, 2011 — Almost 2 years ago, two of five THEMIS satellites were boosted from their orbits around Earth toward the moon. The first transitioned into a lunar orbit on June 27, while the second is destined to ... > full story
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  Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance

  July 13, 2011 — White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars like our sun. Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. Today, these white dwarfs are so near ... > full story
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  Hubble's Neptune Anniversary Pictures

  July 12, 2011 — Today, Neptune has arrived at the same location in space where it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. To commemorate the event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken these "anniversary pictures" ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Cassini Captures Images and Sounds of Saturn Storm

  July 6, 2011 — Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of ... > full story
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  Eye of Gaia: Billion-Pixel Camera to Map Milky Way

  July 6, 2011 — The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the ... > full story
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  Sun's 'DNA' Revealed

  July 6, 2011 — Solar nitrogen is very different from that of meteorites or the Earth. Scientists reached this conclusion after analyzing samples of solar wind collected by the Genesis space mission launched by NASA ... > full story
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  Sounding Rockets Study How Winds in Space Drive Currents in the Upper Atmosphere

  July 5, 2011 — This July, scientists will launch four rockets for a five-minute journey some 100 miles up into the atmosphere. The rockets will collect data on the charged particles as well as winds of neutral ... > full story

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