While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

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A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

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The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...

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Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

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(Compare to the separation of the Pointer Stars in bowl of Big Dipper.) Mars is 7.2°-7.4° from the Twins. In order from west to east are Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all ...