55 Cancri Planetary System
by Lynette Cook/science Photo Library
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55 Cancri Planetary System
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Lynette Cook/science Photo Library
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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55 Cancri planetary system, artwork. This is an outer gas giant planet with a moon (blue) at lower right. The parent star is at upper left, and the four inner planets (small dots) are arranged in a row across the star from left to right. This star system has the most known planets outside of the Solar System, with the fifth planet discovered in 2007. It is around 41 light years from Earth, in the constellation of Cancer.
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September 16th, 2018
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