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Discovering Alien Worlds

This is HIP 65426 b.

A spot of orange and red on a black background.

Image courtesy of NASA.

HIP 65426 b is 2,263,000,000,000,000 miles from Earth.
It was first discovered in 2017, and first photographed in 2022.
It is the size of 9 Jupiters, and it is composed mainly of gas.

So far away that even machines cannot reach it.

We can only imagine what it might look like. And we have – for centuries.

Find out more about what we know about exoplanets and why it matters – and how sci-fi fits into it all.

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What is out there?

Can we go there?

What’s it like there?

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