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It was 20 years ago today (5th Jan)...

Gfamily

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... that Saturn's moon Titan made a very rare transit of the Crab Nebula.

This allowed the Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope to make an X-Ray image of Titan's atmosphere,  data which was later used to help interpret the data captured during the descent of the Huygens probe in 2005

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