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In exploring our own solar system, astronomers have uncovered some weird worlds. However, these are nothing compared to the lands harboured by our neighbouring stars. Huge Jupiters snuggle so close to their star that their years last only as long as our days. Planets are resurrected around stars that have long been dead. Other worlds begin their nights with dual sunsets, like Tatooine in Star Wars, drown in global water oceans, as in Interstellar, or even have seas of tar. These worlds can be more extreme than anything in fiction and prompt us to ask if any could be called home. Credit: NASA

Original air date: Jan. 25, 2018. Explorer 1 marked the start of the Space Age for America, and heralded the study of Earth from space. The JPL-built satellite confirmed the existence of the Van Allen radiation belts, the very first space science discovery. Explorer 1's success was only the first of an array of Earth missions that have mapped and probed our planet's lands, waters and atmosphere on scales ranging from the millimeter to global views. This conversation and multimedia journey spanned from the dawn of Earth space science to today's modern fleet that is providing vital information in understanding the changes taking place on the only planet humans can yet call home. Credits: NASA JPL

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. Credit: NASA

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes. Credit: NASA

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, and remains in operation. Although not the first space telescope, Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy. The HST is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble, and is one of NASA's Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: ESA

At the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), we shape the future. We do this by using science to solve real issues. Our research makes a difference to people, industry and the planet. Credit: CSIRO

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), previously known as Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), is a Flagship-class space observatory under construction and scheduled to launch in October 2018. Credit: NASA

Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself. Credit: NASA

Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the operation and marketing of the Ariane programme. Credit: CNES

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In January 2004 President George W. Bush called upon the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to resume manned missions to the Moon and then to begin manned missions to Mars. Credit: NASA

Nasa Space Documentary about the Big Bang Theory and the James Webb Telescope! Credit: NASA

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ExoMars is a two-part multi-year Martian astrobiology life searching project and joint mission of the European Space Agency and Russian Federal Space Agency. Credit: ESA

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. It is the largest and second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object directly orbiting the Sun. Credit: NASA

In orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering, a gravitational slingshot, gravity assist maneuver, or swing-by is the use of the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other astronomical object to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant, time, and expense. Gravity assistance can be used to accelerate a spacecraft, that is, to increase or decrease its speed or redirect its path. Credit: CSA

Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica have wildly different aesthetics and ideologies, and both aspire to very different goals. Fundamentally, it boils down to this: Star Trek is about who we want to be, and Battlestar Galactica is about who we are.

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Pioneer 4 was a spin-stabilized unmanned spacecraft launched as part of the Pioneer program on a lunar flyby trajectory and into a heliocentric orbit making it the first probe of the United States to escape from the Earth's gravity. Credit: NASA

Moonwalk XP: Weigh six times less than on Earth in our Moon seat equipped with a virtual reality mask. Marswalk XP: Experience the Martian landscape and gravity as if you were there thanks to our special seat and virtual reality mask. #DeepSpaceTV #EuroSpaceCenter #ReduBelgium

Video footage from my trip to the European Space Center In Belgium. #DeepSpaceTV #EuroSpaceCenter #Belgium

Vice President Mike Pence says it's time to prepare for the 'next battlefield' and establish the United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces.

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