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The most distant object ever seen is over 13 billion light-years away.
GN-z11, a galaxy observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, is so far away that we see it as it was 13.4 billion years ago, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. Its light has been traveling toward us for 97% of the universe's history.
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...
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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...
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There’s a planet that orbits its star every 18 hours.
WASP-19b orbits so close to its star that a year on this planet lasts just 18 hours. This...