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“There’s no place like home!” A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. (NASA)

July 2015 Science Images

July 31, 2015

Artist’s conception of the extrasolar ring system circling the young giant planet or brown dwarf J1407b. (Ron Miller)

Extrasolar Object’s Ring System is 200 Times Larger Than Saturn’s

February 4, 2015

One of our solar system’s most fascinating planets is Saturn.  It’s the 2nd largest planet, after Jupiter. But what makes Saturn stand out from the others is the dazzling system of rings that surround it. Recently, a Dutch and an American astronomer found that an extrasolar object, discovered back in 2012, is surrounded by a […]

Coldest-Ever Brown Dwarf Star Discovered

April 28, 2014

The coldest-ever brown dwarf star has been found about 7 light-years away from Earth and could help scientist learn more about the atmospheres of planets. Brown dwarfs are objects that are too big to be planets, but too small to be considered stars.  They begin their lives like stars, but since their mass is so […]

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