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[/caption] For those know their solar system history, the discovery of Neptune is an especially exciting story. Before it was…
This artist's conception shows the newly discovered super-Earth GJ 1214b, which orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from our…
[/caption] Fanciful science fiction and space art frequently depict the lovely visage of a twin sunset where a pair of…
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With the upcoming launch in March of the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets, there is quite a lot of…