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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months
the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 2, which is operating normally, has traveled more than 12.6 billion miles (20.3 billion ...
Interstellar Voyager 1 resumes operations after pause in communications with NASA
NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...
On this date: Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn.
Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn. The Dodgers keep adding to their payroll. The two-year-old company raised its ...
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Pluto’s Weirdly Big Moon May Have Come From A ‘Kiss And Capture’
Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest. Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative ...
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Did Pluto ‘kiss and capture’ its largest moon?
Pluto can be thought of as being part of a binary system with its biggest satellite, Charon (pictured). Scientists have long thought that this system formed as the result of a collision between ...
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On this date: Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn.
As of December, Voyager 1 was 15.5 billion miles from Earth – more than 4 times the distance from Earth to Pluto. This story was created by multimedia editor Rob Landers, rlanders@floridatoday ...