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A small, cratered world that races around the Sun faster than any other planet.

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Earth's near-sized neighbor hides beneath thick clouds and is our solar system's hottest planet.

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Our ocean-covered home is the only world currently known to support life.

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The Red Planet is a rocky desert world with a day surprisingly close to Earth's.

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Our largest planet is a gas giant wrapped in cloud bands, with a famously enormous storm.

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A gas giant surrounded by bright rings made from countless pieces of ice and rock.

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This distant ice giant rolls through its orbit with an unusually extreme axial tilt.

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A cold, windy ice giant at the outer edge of our solar system's eight planets.

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The star at the center of our solar system supplies the energy that makes life on Earth possible.

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A possible ocean world in its star's habitable zone; an ocean has not been confirmed.

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An approximately Earth-sized terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a cool M-type star.

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A close-orbiting member of the TRAPPIST-1 system, with a radius just larger than Earth's.

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A world larger than Earth that completes an orbit around TRAPPIST-1 in less than two weeks.

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An exoplanet a little larger than Earth, circling an M-type star.

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NASA calls this habitable-zone world an Earth cousin, but that does not establish that it hosts life.

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A gas giant that circles a G-type star in only a few Earth days.

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A gas giant larger in radius than Jupiter, orbiting very close to an F-type star.

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A blue gas giant whose atmospheric haze makes its inviting appearance deceptive.

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An exoplanet orbiting the M-type star Proxima Centauri on a compact, eleven-day orbit.

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The brightest entry in ESA's Hipparcos stellar table shines in Canis Major.

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A bright star in Boötes, listed among the leading lights in ESA's Hipparcos table.

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A bright star in Lyra, close enough for ESA's educational table to place it about 25 light-years away.

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A bright point in Auriga, recorded in the Hipparcos catalog under the name Capella.

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A nearby bright star in Canis Minor, listed just over eleven light-years away in ESA's table.

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A bright star in Aquila, one of the nearby entries in ESA's Hipparcos table.

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A bright star in Taurus, identified as Alpha Tauri in ESA's stellar table.

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A bright star in Piscis Austrinus, placed about 25 light-years away in ESA's table.

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A blue-white supergiant marking Orion's foot, and the constellation's brightest star.

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Orion's red supergiant shoulder star leads a short, dramatic life compared with our Sun.

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The North Star stays near the north celestial pole and helps Northern Hemisphere observers find true north.

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