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Space exploration

Voyager 1
Outta here
Fantastic voyage
Published Sept 13, 2013
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has left solar system, becomes first human-made object in interstellar space / Applied Physics Laboratory
Bennett receives Jansky Prize
Published Aug 15, 2013
Award recognizes contributions in the advancement of radio astronomy
Astronomical honor
Published July 19, 2013
JHU's Ford receives NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal for work on Hubble Space Telescope
New Horizons spacecraft
APL hosts New Horizons talk
Published July 15, 2013
Alan Stern, lead investigator for NASA's mission to Pluto, will speak on July 23
Saturn moon topography
Moon shots
Titan, bumps and all
Published May 16, 2013
APL-led team creates first topographic map of Saturn's largest moon / Applied Physics Laboratory
Distant supernova
Outta sight
Stellar discovery
Published April 4, 2013
Johns Hopkins team uses Hubble to discover farthest known supernova
Voyager 1
Those old models? Wrong
Published Spring 2013
Thirty-five years into a four-year mission, Voyager is still making surprising discoveries / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Cost in space
Published Spring 2013
Is space exploration worth the cost? A new book offers a critical and engaging defense / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Belt expansion
Published Feb 28, 2013
APL-built spacecraft discover previously undetected third radiation belt around Earth / Applied Physics Laboratory
Mercury findings
Published Nov 29, 2012
Messenger observations point to existence of water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters / Applied Physics Laboratory