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Why real planets are weirder than sci-fi

For decades, science fiction treated alien planets like Earth with a different paint job. This video shows how real exoplanet discoveries changed that, forcing writers to imagine harsher climates, ...
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Here's what we know about the real alien planet inspiring 'Pluribus'

In Apple TV’s Pluribus, a faint radio signal from deep space reshapes humanity, and the source, astronomers learn, is Kepler-22b, a world that exists far beyond our solar system. During episode 8, ...
RealClearScience

The Real Reason Asteroids Aren't Planets

(via minutephysics) This video is about the interesting and often-misunderstood story of the asteroids, and how they lost their planet-hood status; more recently than you may think!
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If This Planet Is Real, It Would Break So Many Records

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable zone. Reading time 3 minutes Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha ...
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Here's what we know about the real alien planet inspiring 'Pluribus'

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...