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More than 1,400 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet WASP-12 b is being slowly devoured by its star. Scientists think it could be gone in 10 million years.
But not today. #MondayMotivation: Today belongs to you!✨
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Exoplanets are far away and hard to see, especially next to much bigger and brighter stars. One way to spot them, though, is to look to their stars. An orbiting exoplanet can change the star's light. go.nasa.gov/323Oue0
#MondayMotivation: Small acts can have a big effect.
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Astrophysicists and citizen scientists teamed up to find three possible exoplanets in the last data from the Kepler telescope -- as it was running out of fuel. (Two planets were confirmed.) go.nasa.gov/3MEFSkw
#MondayMotivation: Follow @DoNASAScience and discover worlds!
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In the time of the dinosaurs, Saturn may not yet have acquired its iconic rings – and future Earth dwellers may someday know a world without them.
#MondayMotivation: The right time might just be now! go.nasa.gov/42ePyrL
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✨ @NASAHubble launched #OTD 33 years ago! It's been our window to the cosmos ever since. Celebrate this intrepid explorer with our free poster or digital background: go.nasa.gov/3n3g7S3
#MondayMotivation: Never stop exploring!
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These two stars are on their own adventure!
One collapsed with such force that it was ejected from its galaxy, dragging its binary star companion out with it.
#MondayMotivation: It's all about the journey.
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In one minute, light travels 11 million miles/18 million km. (That's 186,000 miles/300,000 km a second!) Light is fast, but distances in space are so vast that it can take years to reach us. go.nasa.gov/3ZJ5txv
#MondayMotivation: Look around; you're already on the way!
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We've discovered 5,243 planets beyond our own solar system – exoplanets – so far.💫 Each week we add to the known worlds.

#MondayMotivation: Search for understanding wherever you can.
exoplanets.nasa.gov
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How did we get here? How do stars and planets come into being? What happens during a star's life, and what fate will its planets meet when it dies? Come along on this interstellar journey through time. go.nasa.gov/3hOO9qw
#MondayMotivation: Settle in for a #longread
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When two galaxies encounter each other, it takes 1-2 billion years for them to merge and settle down. While the stars already in the galaxies don’t change much, the collision can spark lots of new stars to form! ✨ #MondayMotivation
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The nitrogen in your DNA was once inside a small star. 🧬 That star shed its outer layers at the end of its life, forming a planetary nebula and freeing its nitrogen to become part of our solar system. #MondayMotivation
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#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell provided the first direct evidence of pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars. Decades later, the first exoplanets were found – orbiting pulsars, helping launch a new era of discovery. #MondayMotivation: Change the world
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Stars in globular clusters pack snugly together. Messier 28, for example, crams about 50,000 stars into a region just 60 light-years (350 trillion miles) across. The Sun only has about 400 known stellar neighbors that close. #MondayMotivation
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To the unaided eye, the Orion Nebula appears as a tiny, hazy spot within the sword of the constellation Orion. But it’s a vast stellar nursery of roiling dust and gas where vast numbers of new stars are forming. #MondayMotivation
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