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Mirror-like exoplanet that 'shouldn't exist' is the shiniest world ever discoveredA distant planet named LTT9779 b reflects 80% of its star's light, making the strange world with metal clouds the biggest known "mirror" in the universe.
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Mysterious 'zombie planet' Halla seems to have survived the explosive death of its star. How?The Jupiter-sized exoplanet Halla has somehow survived the death of its star, and astronomers aren't sure how.
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Bizarre object hotter than the sun is orbiting a distant star at breakneck speedScientists have discovered a weird celestial object that's blurring the line between planet and star.
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There may be hundreds of millions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, new study suggestsA new analysis of Kepler data shows that one-third of small stars called M dwarfs may have the potential to host life.
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James Webb telescope discovers ancient 'water world' in nearby star systemThe James Webb Space Telescope took its first close look at a "mini-Neptune" — the most common type of planet beyond our solar system — and found signs of water.
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For the first time, scientists watched a dying star swallow a planet wholeAstronomers have spotted a bright flash of light from a Jupiter-size world being consumed by its own star in a preview of Earth’s likely fate.
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James Webb telescope detects light from a small, Earth-like planet — and finds it's missing its atmosphereNASA's James Webb Space Telescope measured the temperature of the Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1b and found that it is too hot for humans and likely has no atmosphere.
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How to watch Ceres, a dwarf planet 14 times smaller than Pluto, photobomb a spiral galaxy in the sky this weekendWatch live online as the dwarf planet Ceres swoops in front of the 'grand design' spiral galaxy Messier 100 this weekend.
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James Webb telescope spots dust storm raging on a giant planet nearly 20 times the size of JupiterUsing the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed a massive dust storm in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, a 'super-Jupiter' exoplanet located 40 light-years from Earth.
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