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Figure 1. Three perspectives on one small planet. ----------- Writers throughout the twentieth century engaged in speculation on extraterrestrial life: not only life as we know it, but life as we never knew it. Lately, however, interest has shifted away from such intriguing prospects as crystalline colonial organisms, sentient plasma clouds, and the ecologies of gas giant atmospheres, toward the more prosaic question of carbon-based life on Earth-like worlds. Current investigations invoke…

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Astronomy on Instagram: "This is Earth compared to 3 (potentially) habitable exo planets elsewhere in the universe. An exo planet is a planet orbiting a foreign star outside of our own solar system. These planets were never known to exist prior to the late 1900’s. 1️⃣ Kepler 186f - 582 light years away 2️⃣ Kepler 442b - 1,100 light years away 3️⃣ Kepler 62f - 1,200 light years away These exo planets are crazy far away, taking over half a millennium for light to get to the first one. Even…

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