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The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

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Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...

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Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.