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    "headline": "Jupiter's Magnetic Field May Have Saved Its Big Moons",
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    "dek": "Simulations link a cavity in young Jupiter's moon-forming disk to the survival of several large satellites, while Saturn lacked the same refuge.",
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    "body_text": "Researchers in Japan and China modeled the thermal and magnetic evolution of young Jupiter and Saturn, their circumplanetary disks and the migration of forming moons. Their Nature Astronomy simulations suggest Jupiter's stronger early magnetic field opened an inner cavity that trapped and preserved Io, Europa and Ganymede, while Saturn's weaker field left inward-migrating moons without a comparable safe zone. The model offers one coherent explanation for the two systems; it is not a direct observation of their formation.",
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      "title": "Kyoto University via ScienceDaily: Magnetic cavities and giant-moon systems",
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