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Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...
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Since the planets all orbit the sun in the same plane, they can look like they are aligned in a row in the sky. "Think of stars as cars on a really distant freeway where it looks like they're not ...
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Seven planets — Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn — will appear to line up just after sunset. You'll need a telescope to see Uranus and Neptune, the most distant ...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.