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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. https://go.nasa.gov/3hOO9qw
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Introduction | Life and Death of a Planetary System – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
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There is an exoplanet less reflective than coal. It's the darkest planet ever discovered orbiting a star, and its atmosphere is hotter than lava! It would incinerate any stocking it found itself in. Happy holidays from your exoplanet friends!
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Eyes On Exoplanets – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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One year ago today, @NASAWebb launched and lifted all of us. We're thankful for the science and look forward to discoveries to come, but in this moment, we are grateful for the wonder that Webb provided with every image and observation. We're glad you're here with us.
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🎵Seven worlds of Earthly size
Are ready for Webb's probing eyes🎶
@NASAWebb launched at Christmastime a year ago. In 2023 we'll start to see science from each of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets. We can't wait! https://go.nasa.gov/3FTscQn
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A Wonderland of Science Awaits

We've already had gifts aplenty this year and we're looking forward to the science to come in 2023, including Webb's observation of the TRAPPIST-1 planets.
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A delicate ribbon draped across space. This @NASAHubble image reminds us of all the things that connect us, regardless of distance.

It's part of a supernova blast wave in the constellation Cygnus, ~2,400 light-years away: https://go.nasa.gov/34TcdiW
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Hubble Views Edge of Stellar Blast

This Hubble Space Telescope image depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, the result of the "death" of a star 20 times more massive than our Sun 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Rob Garner (NASA)
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'Snowflakes' in the Christmas Cluster ❄️
Newborn stars glisten like snowflakes hidden in a great cloud of dust and gas, and revealed in infrared. As winter weather settles across the US, we hope you're warm and safe. https://go.nasa.gov/3C1PmSb
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Stellar Snowflake Cluster

The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures.
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On this, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, we bring you a planet where a year, one orbit of its star, takes less time. K2-137b races around its star in less than 5 hours. It's 320 light-years away. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets/#/planet/K2-137_b/
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Eyes On Exoplanets – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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Dancing planets? TRAPPIST-1 science? Playing this on repeat all week. Volume UP! And, we mean you! Turn up *your* volume and sing along👨‍🎤
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#OTD in 2011, we discovered Kepler-20e, the first planet beyond our solar system smaller than Earth. In all, we've confirmed six exoplanets in the system orbiting a Sun-like star more than 900 light-years from Earth. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/91/kepler-20e-the-smallest-exoplanet-artists-concept/
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Kepler-20e -- The Smallest Exoplanet (Artist's Concept) - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

This artist's animation flies through the Kepler-20 star system, where NASA's Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets around a star beyond our own.
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We send robots to places people cannot yet go. They are humanity's farthest extensions and our representatives to worlds beyond our own. @NASAInSight is a very good robot💙
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Discovery Alert!
A once overlooked giant planet may be spiraling into its fiery hot star! https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1718/discovery-alert-for-this-familiar-planet-a-death-spiral/
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Discovery Alert: For This Familiar Planet, a Death Spiral

A previously discovered "hot Jupiter" appears to be spiraling into its star, new data shows.
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A small portion of the Lagoon Nebula, 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius, holds thousands of stars. @NASAHubble searched the nebula for the type of disks that give rise to planets. https://go.nasa.gov/3V2UHzl
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Hubble Views a Star-Studded Cosmic Cloud

A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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What's better than a Saturday singalong? A Saturday Science Singalong!
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🎵O TRAPPIST-1, O TRAPPIST-1
How lovely are thy planets🎶
The seven Earth-sized worlds are prime targets for @NASAWebb to explore. We have so much science to look forward to in 2023! In the meantime, we wish you joy this holiday season. https://go.nasa.gov/3FTscQn
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A Wonderland of Science Awaits

We've already had gifts aplenty this year and we're looking forward to the science to come in 2023, including Webb's observation of the TRAPPIST-1 planets.
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Two super-Earth exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and are unlike any planet found in our solar system. https://go.nasa.gov/3FToWEu
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Two Super-Earths May Be Mostly Water

Two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and are unlike any planet found in our solar system.
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Astronomers have long theorized that water worlds exist and @NASAHubble and Spitzer may have provided the best evidence yet. Kepler-138 d is bigger abound than Earth, but much less dense. Water, lots and lots of water, could explain why.
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One of @nasa's biggest stories of the year was a milestone 30 years in the making. We passed 5,000 confirmed exoplanets! We're over 5,200 now and our exploration is going strong. See and hear the pace of discovery👇

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1702/cosmic-milestone-nasa-confirms-5000-exoplanets/
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Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets

The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
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#OTD in 2009, @nasa launched the WISE telescope. It helped us better understand our universe before turning its attention to mapping the sky to search for asteroids and other near Earth objects. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/main/index.html
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

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A 12-year survey of our sky
The WISE/NEOWISE telescope started mapping our sky after its launch #OTD in 2009. A video of its view reveals dying stars, hungry black holes and more. https://go.nasa.gov/3FeMsdG
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NASA Telescope Takes 12-Year Time-Lapse Movie of Entire Sky

Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky.
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In a section of sky as tiny as a human viewed from a mile away, @NASAWebb observed four of the oldest and most distant galaxies ever seen. They date to less than 400 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only 2% of its current age. https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
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James Webb Space Telescope

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Discovery Alert!
Six super-Earths join the known worlds, bringing our exoplanet total to 5,227. TOI 1136 b, c, d, e, f and g are in orbital resonance, meaning their orbits are precisely timed to each other in a grand cosmic dance. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/8713/toi-1136-b/
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Exoplanet-catalog – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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Ripples in time...
5,300 light-years from Earth, two bright stars are locked in a fiery dance. Their orbits bring them together every 8 years. Each time they meet, a new ring is formed. @NASAWebb caught more than a century of this celestial dance. https://go.nasa.gov/3RYZlwG
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Star Duo Forms ‘Fingerprint’ in Space, NASA’s Webb Finds

A new image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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Think...small✨
@NASAHubble captured this view of a tiny fraction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy. It's one of our nearest neighbors, ''only'' about 200,000 light-years away. https://go.nasa.gov/3HjOuvL
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Hubble Captures a Glittering Neighbor

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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A splash in a sea of stars✨
The blue-white cluster of stars in the upper right of this image are loosely bound by gravity; after a few million years, they may settle into galaxies. https://go.nasa.gov/3BgPo8o
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Hubble Spots Bright Splash of Stars Amid Ripples of Gas and Dust

Open cluster KMHK 1231 is a group of stars loosely bound by gravity. Seen in the upper left of this Hubble Space Telescope image, this cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud is surrounded by a crimson nebula of gas and dust extending both to the right…
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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Some planets, particularly young ones, are puffy. These gaseous worlds have size, but lack mass, meaning they have a consistency similar to cotton candy! #CottonCandyDay
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Hubble Observes a Mystery: 'Cotton Candy' Planets

"Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy. Nothing like them exists in our solar system.
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We know more about the atmosphere of WASP-39 b than almost any other exoplanet, thanks to scientists around the world working with @NASAWebb data. See what we've learned: http://go.nasa.gov/3OqkAaI
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NASA's Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before

Webb's firsts keep coming: Observations of the exoplanet WASP-39 b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds.
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You who, boo, we see you🤩
A tiny, nearby galaxy peeks from behind a bright foreground star. The Peekaboo Galaxy is much like galaxies found in the distant, early universe, without many of the heavier elements forged in stars over cosmic history. https://go.nasa.gov/3UCCt7N
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Peekaboo! Tiny, Hidden Galaxy Provides a Peek Into the Past

Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of a nearby galaxy with characteristics that are more like galaxies in the distant, early universe.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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5,220!
That’s how many worlds beyond our solar system we’ve confirmed so far. Super-Earths, Hot Jupiters and mini-Neptunes abound, though none of these types are found in our own planetary neighborhood. Some may be Earth size but none are Earth-like. http://exoplanets.nasa.gov
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Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
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About 670 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus, two galaxies are caught in a celestial embrace. The merging galaxies are distorted by gravity and twisted into a colossal ring, leaving their cores nestled side by side.
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Hubble Hunts an Unusual Galaxy

The galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 steals the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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A moon of Saturn might be one of the most exoplanety worlds out there! Titan, with its thick atmosphere and seas, could be like an early version of Earth.
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Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has rivers and lakes obscured by its dense atmosphere. @NASAWebb 's infrared view allows us to peek through and at some of Titan's clouds: https://go.nasa.gov/3FijpXN
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Webb, Keck Telescopes Team Up to Track Clouds on Saturn’s Moon Titan – James Webb Space Telescope

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TESS, this sweet little spacecraft, has exoplanet in its very name -- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. So far, it's discovered more than 270 planets and more than 6,000 planet candidates. We love TESS💜
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Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
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5,211!
That's how many planets beyond our solar system that we've confirmed so far.
Some are so blasted by their stars that surfaces are covered in lava; others may have jewels floating in winds. Each one is wonder!
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/discoveries-dashboard/
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Discoveries Dashboard | Discovery – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

See the latest real-time data dashboard from NASA on exoplanet discoveries, planet types, and more.
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In a star's life, being 100,000 years old makes one equivalent to a 7-hour-old infant. And, it turns out, they also need to 'burp' (every ~400 years). Such outbursts follow feeding frenzies, shows research that could shed light on planet formation. https://go.nasa.gov/3Fc6ve1
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Baby Star ‘Burps’ Tell Tales of Frantic Feeding, NASA Data Shows

The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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Listen to (another!) black hole 🔊
This one bangs. Literally. Material surrounding a black hole can produce intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation that can bounce off clouds of gas & dust in space. @chandraxray's sonification turns these ''light echoes'' into sound.
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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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Overview | Planet Types – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

So far scientists have categorized exoplanets into the following types: Gas giant, Neptunian, super-Earth and terrestrial, but there is complexity within these groups.
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On this day, we are thankful for the little white dot just below Saturn's rings. That's us! (You look great, btw,.) Seen from a billion miles away, Earth shines bright. Happy Thanksgiving, friends. We're glad you're here.
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Science is a shared endeavor. And, like most things, it's better with friends💜
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Do we know of worlds beyond Earth with rivers and lakes? We do! And we're looking for more!
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