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  • NASA finds a new kind of planet

    NASA has just announced that, by using the Hubble Space Telescope, that it has found a completely new kind of extrasolar planet: a 'super-Earth' that is mostly water. Discovered in 2009 and orbiting a star 40 light...

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  • Planets line up at dusk (PHOTOS)

    This week, there is going to be quite the cosmic show in the Western sky just after sunset as the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter all get together to pay each other close (at least apparently) visits. Needless to say...

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  • Featured sight for week of 2/19: thin Moons and planets

    It's a new week, which means that a new, cosmic event is in the spotlight. This week's feature: an ongoing, days-long dance between a thin crescent Moon and several of the planets that will take...

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