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Janica Compte for The Fashion Hunters by Rachel Marques

PACIFIC RIM (2013)

Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Cinematography by Guillermo Navarro

Dave Kirk

According to NASA, a neighboring star has 7 Earth-like planets in its orbit

Seven Earth-like planets have been found orbiting a sun not too far — in space terms, at least — from our own.

NASA announced Wednesday that the planets resemble Earth in composition and spacing from their star, which means their conditions might be favorable to liquid water and life, Time reported.

“The planets form a very compact system,” Michaël Gillon of Belgium’s University of Liège, said in a teleconference, according to Time. “They are very close to their star and are reminiscent of the system of moons that orbit Jupiter. They could have liquid water and life.”

Astronomers studied the star, Trappist-1 — which, at 39 light years away from Earth, is considered a relative neighbor — for six years, using telescopes located all over the world, plus the Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more (2/22/17 2:04 PM)

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Glowing Moon

This moon glows accurate to the data it receives from the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft to give you the best experience directly from space. Sold on Nosinger.

- A New Dimension -

by Pedro Gabriel

ART PRINTS BY ALEXANDER POHL

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Moon