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Is Earth a Typical Planet? The Universe Hasn’t Told Us Yet
Imagine visiting a new city, seeing one house, and deciding that houses everywhere must have a front porch, two bedrooms, and a yellow door. That is roughly where humanity began its study of planets. For most of our history, the only planetary system we knew was our own. Earth was our example of a habitable…
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