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Here is a very distant globular cluster called NGC 6229 found in the constellation Hercules, it is about 100,000 light years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 9.39. What a difference distant makes when you compare this globular cluster with the spectacular Hercules cluster (25,000 light years away) which is found in the same constellation.
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Kate Rubins, the only current American astronaut in space could end up voting for president from the International Space Station.
We call that commitment!
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A rocky planet discovered within the habitable area of the star nearest to our Sun may be covered with oceans.
The planet, named Proxima b, may be an ocean planet similar to earth.
In fact, it may even be the first exoplanet (outside of our Solar System) to be visited by robots from Earth in time.
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