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an artist's rendering of the solar system, with its planets and their satellites

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50 Years of Space Exploration by Adam Crowe, via Flickr

an artist's rendering of two stars in the sky with one light shining on them

Unprecedented: Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns

PH1 has now been classified as the first confirmed planet to orbit an eclipsing binary in a hierarchical quadruple star system. And given that the most distant stars are only 1,000 AU away, the night sky must be nothing short of spectacular.

an image of the planets and their satellites

New Earth 500 light years away - Gaming

New Earth 500 light years away

the sky full of alien planets is shown in this chart, with information about them

How Planets in Alien Solar Systems Stack Up (Infographic)

http://www.space.com/10761-sky-full-alien-planets.html - Alien solar systems infographic

an image of the solar system with all its planets and suns in different colors

Keplers wahrscheinlichste Exoplaneten-Kandidaten für außerirdisches Leben

Keplers wahrscheinlichste Exoplaneten-Kandidaten für außerirdisches Leben . . . http://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/kepler-kandidaten-f-ausserird-leben20160806/

an image of a black hole in the sky with blue light coming out from it

It's Complicated: Hubble Survey Finds Unexpected Diversity in Dusty Discs Around Nearby Stars

Images captured by the Hubble Telescope of the vast debris systems surrounding nearby stars. Credit: NASA/ESA/ G. Schneider (University of Arizona), and the HST/GO 12228 Team

an image of the earth with all its different colors and layers labeled in rainbows

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The cosmic rays depicted here can be described as high energy particles like…

an image of the earth from space showing all its different layers and features in it

NameBright - Coming Soon

The Universe is a REALLY big place...

the solar system is shown in black and yellow with text that reads are we alone in the

Are we alone in the universe? [infographic] - Holy Kaw!

Are We Alone In The Universe?

an image of the sky with two planets in it and a quote about astronomy that reads, andromeda's actual size if it were brighter

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Humility: Andromeda’s actual size, not accounting for the fact it is 2.5 BILLION LIGHT YEARS away, compared with the moon's 238,000 MILES away. It contains a Trillion stars, while our galaxy contains at most a half a billion stars... And some on earth delude themselves that they are the center of Everything.