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Breaking News: Kepler Team Spots First Earth-Sized Exoplanets

The video above sums up the big astro-news of the day: NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the existence of not one but TWO Earth-sized planets orbiting a Sun-like star 1,000 light-years away. This is a big deal!

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Here's a view from #Mars assembled from two left navcam images captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover on June 23, 2022.
This animation is made from 358 images captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft over the course of 24 hours as it was traveling away from #Earth 🌏 on August 2-3, 2005 on its way to Venus and then Mercury.
A view of #Mars made from images captured with the EXI camera aboard the UAE's @HopeMarsMission orbiter on November 22, 2021 from a distance of 20,118 km.
This little jellybean is Polydeuces, a 3x2-km #moon of Saturn🪐 imaged with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on June 16, 2015 #OTD from a distance of 36,814 km. Polydeuces follows the much larger moon Dione in its orbit, wandering around its trailing Lagrangian point.
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