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In celebration of International SPACE Week, I wanted to share a few interesting facts about exo-planets and put our planet in perspective. The first planet that does not orbit our Sun was only discovered in 1992. While there are probably billions of them, there are now over 4,000 confirmed planets in our Galaxy alone and hundreds more have already been discovered this year. The first planet beyond our Galaxy, however, was only discovered last month, and orbits a star in the Whirlpool Galaxy some 23 million light-years away. There are only about 100 confirmed planets within 30 light-years of Earth, and the closest is still over 4 light-years away. The furthest man-made object — the Voyager 1 Spacecraft — is still less than a light-day away after travelling for almost ½ a century. While a tiny virus, a Gigafire and biblical flooding has rendered Planet Earth less habitable than usual, it is still prime real estate in the scheme of the Universe. The closest even tolerable planet is prob...
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