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Physics World July 2016

Physics World July 2016

Planetary science: secrets of the solar system

Devoted to planetary science, this special issue includes amazing images from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, an investigation into auroras on planets other than Earth, and an analysis of what we know about Vesta and Ceres – the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt. Plus the inside story of NASA’s Juno mission and what it hopes to achieve. Don’t miss either our feature on Planet Nine, in which Konstantin Bataygin from the California Institute of Technology explains what led him and astronomer Mike Brown to propose the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system.

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Computer simulation of a supermassive black hole research update

Stephen Hawking weighs in on black hole paradox

Photo of a NASA Mars rover opinion

See like a solar system

Artistic impression of the Juno spacecraft, consisting of a central gold-hued structure from which emanate three symmetrical long rectangular solar-celled brown arms, positioned in front of Jupiter feature

Brave new Jupiter

Black-and-white photo of an analytical chemist, Lois Taylor, using a piece of laboratory equipment to carefully transfer material into a small flask review

Another giant leap

Artistic impression showing a large dark-blue planet on the background of the Milky Way and deep space feature

Pathway to Planet Nine

Saturn and its rings lit up by aurorae feature

Extraterrestrial light shows

Photo of a smiling Fang Lizhi surrounded by happy students review

Fang Lizhi, physicist and dissident

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