planetary

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Horgan serves as a long-term planner on NASA's Perseverance rover mission and is a professor of planetary science in Purdue's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

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First observed in the early 1800s, the Helix Nebula has become one of the most recognizable planetary nebulas in the sky thanks to its bold, ring-like appearance.

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At the same time, work accelerated across a wide range of priorities, including lunar exploration, Earth science, planetary defense, next-generation aeronautics, and technologies intended to support future missions to Mars.

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The observation offers a rare look at energetic and chaotic activity that can continue shaping planetary systems long after they form.

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These sources include pulsars, planetary nebulae, compact HII regions -- which are dense, ionized gas clouds in space -- as well as distant galaxies that lie far beyond the Milky Way.

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