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A halo surrounds Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Titan's atmosphere, almost entirely nitrogen, extends some 370 miles (600 kilometers) into space—ten times as far as Earth's atmosphere.
Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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