The Planets and Beyond
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Astronaut Mike Massimino's Favorite Space Movies
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Mike dishes about Space Food.
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Astronaut Mike Massimino's Favorite Meal in Space
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Unexplained observations suggest the Moon is alive.
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The Moon Alive?!
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Was the moon a captured planet?
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The Moon’s Origins
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Planet TrES-2b is so hot that its atmosphere absorbs virtually all the light from its star.
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The Dark Knight
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A collapsed star orbiting a pulsar has become a giant diamond.
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Making the Diamond Planet
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Charon is the strangest of Pluto’s very strange moons.
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Pluto's Moon Charon: A "Frankenstein" World
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Flowing liquid nitrogen smoothed the vast plain known as Sputnik Planum.
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What Created Pluto's Heart?
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If Planet 9 exists, it may have been stolen from another star system.
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A Case of Planetary Theft?
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The mysterious planet may glow like a jellyfish.
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Planet 9 Could Have a Transparent Atmosphere
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Historic highlights from the record-setting Saturn probe.
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8 Extraordinary Cassini Moments
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Saturn's rings and moons teach us how planets formed around our sun -- and around other stars.
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Saturn is a Snapshot of an Early Solar System
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Greenhouse gasses from volcanoes have helped raise Venus' surface temperature to 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
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How Venus Became a Hellish Planet
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Storm systems on Saturn form a perfect hexagon on the planet's north pole.
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Saturn's Amazing Hexagon
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Volcanoes on Other Planets
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Nuclear fusion events create the elements in the universe with each reaction. The second heavy iron is created in a star’s core, it goes super nova and spreads the base elements into the universe.
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NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory listens to the sun by speeding up 40 days of recording into a few seconds
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This Is What The Sun Sounds Like
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As scientists studied the Kuiper Belt, they became puzzled by a group of asteroids that deviated from the normal orbital path. The conclusion? There’s something massive out there that is pulling the asteroids out of line.
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Rogue Asteroids Helped Scientists Find Planet 9
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NASA's space probes find Triton covered in frozen nitrogen ice.
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