Two Earth Sized Planets Recently Found!!!

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Two Earth Sized Planets Recently Found!!!
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Submitted by: Unknown (via Bad Astronomy)
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Scanning the heavens, you might very well miss the star Kepler-62. It's a rather typical star, slightly smaller, cooler, and more orange than the Sun, much like tens of billions of other stars in our galaxy. But it holds a surprise: It's orbited by at least five planets… and two of them are Earth-sized and orbit the star in its habitable zone!

One Hazy Galaxy

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One Hazy Galaxy
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Submitted by: Unknown (via NASA)
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This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the dusty structure encircling the center of the galaxy, forming a knotted ring around the galaxy's brightly glowing middle. Interestingly, this ring lies perpendicular to the plane of NGC 2768 itself, stretching up and out of the galaxy.

Did You Get to See the Aurora on Saturday Night? I Didn't...Stupid Seattle.

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Did You Get to See the Aurora on Saturday Night? I Didn't...Stupid Seattle.
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If by chance you got a good look at the aurora on Saturday and have any pictures you'd like to share, I'd love to post them!

Titan's Glow

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Titan's Glow
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Submitted by: Unknown (via Ikenbot)
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This is an approximate true color image of Titan's haze layers, taken by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem during Cassini's 91st encounter with Titan on April 5, 2013.