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Planets in our solar system also twinkle but they don’t twinkle the same way stars do because they are too close and too big.
🔴 VIDEO: Why Do Stars Twinkle? ➡️ https://t.co/sy0o8hQtF0
Photo: EarthSky
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The closest exoplanet is 4.2 light years away or 40 trillion km (25 trillion miles) from Earth! 😳
🔴 VIDEO: What Is The Closest Exoplanet? ➡️ https://t.co/7ZH9bEqdX1
Photo: Wikipedia
#POTD 🌟 The Kepler Space Telescope observed 530,500 stars and detected over 2,600 confirmed exoplanets.
🔴 VIDEO: How Astronomers Look For Planets | Kepler Space Telescope ➡��� https://t.co/LgFvG4m7EK
Photo: Wikipedia, Spaceflight Magazine, Daily Mail
#POTD 🌟 “Herschel made of 35,000 scientific observations and collected more than 25,000 hours worth of science data from about 600 different observing programs.” - Nancy Atkinson
🔴 VIDEO: What Did The Herschel Space Telescope Discover? ➡️ https://t.co/JWTBZXBxbf
Photo: ESA
#POTD 🌟The Herschel Space Telescope has a 11.5 ft (3.5 m) mirror, almost one and a half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope.
🔴 VIDEO: What Did The Herschel Space Telescope Discover? ���️ https://t.co/JWTBZXBxbf
Photo: ESA
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