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There’s a star that’s almost as old as the universe.
HD 140283, nicknamed the Methuselah star, is estimated to be 14.5 billion years old (which actually conflicts with the universe's age of 13.8 billion years, highlighting the uncertainty in our measurements). It's one of the oldest known stars and contains valuable information about the early universe.
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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...