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4000 Exoplanets
Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Dawn's Early Light, Rocket's Red Glare
If you saw the dawn's early light from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last Friday, June 29, then you could have seen this rocket's red glare.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: TESS Launch Close Up
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) began its search for planets orbiting other stars by leaving planet Earth on April 18.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Space Shuttle Rising
What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: LL Ori and the Orion Nebula
Stars can make waves in the Orion Nebula's sea of gas and dust. This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow
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