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Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...

That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope ... Around the Sun, only Venus and Mercury have an orbit of less than one year. But the stars that Kepler observed bloomed with planets so close ...

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