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    0 Steps to Confirm a Planet Around Another Star

    So you think you found an exoplanet -- a planet around another star? It’s not as simple as pointing a telescope. Here are 10 things to know about finding and confirming exoplanets.

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    A Farewell to Saturn

    In September 2017, after more than 13 years at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this last, full mosaic of the planet two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the atmosphere.

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    Jupiter's Magnetosphere

    September

    2018
    A simplified model of Jupiter's massive magnetic field, known as a magnetosphere..
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