Fantastic Voyage
By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2009
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Flashback to Neptune's Moon Triton (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Voyager flyby of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24, 2009.
Space Exploration
Aug 26, 2009
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Researchers determined huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune
(PhysOrg.com) -- The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before.
General Physics
Feb 18, 2009
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Team finds smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever
The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the Earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the Sun. It is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius has ever been ...
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2009
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Transit Search Finds Super-Neptune
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune has a diameter ...
Astronomy
Jan 20, 2009
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