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    The fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise features multiple planets and moons. While only the feature films and selected other works are considered...
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  • Star Planet (stylized as STAR PLANET) (formerly known as STARDUST PLANET) is a department of the Japanese entertainment company Stardust Promotion specialising...
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  • there is, on average, at least one planet per star. One in five Sun-like stars is expected to have an "Earth-sized" planet in the habitable zone. The radial-velocity...
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    A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one...
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    Exoplanet (redirect from Exosolar planet)
    detection of planets near the star; thus, 85% of the exoplanets detected are inside the tidal locking zone. In several cases, multiple planets have been...
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    Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For example, a star like the Sun is about a billion times as bright as the reflected...
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  • proposed action adventure sequel to Star Fox 64 that began development within Nintendo EAD at Kyoto, and Dinosaur Planet, an original property created by...
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  • MovieStarPlanet is a free-to-play online social game developed by MovieStarPlanet ApS for Windows, iOS, and Android. It was initially released in Denmark...
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    orbit rogue planets have also been detected by microlensing. In September 2019, astronomers reported that the observed dimmings of Tabby's Star may have...
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    share the orbits of planets or of large moons. Trojans are one type of co-orbital object. In this arrangement, a star and a planet orbit about their common...
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    of planets. One of the best-known hot Jupiters is 51 Pegasi b. Discovered in 1995, it was the first extrasolar planet found orbiting a Sun-like star. 51...
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    in France discovered the planet orbiting the star HD 189733 on October 5, 2005, by observing its transit across the star's face. With a mass 11.2% higher...
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  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a 2024 American science fiction action film directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman. It is the fourth installment...
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    depicted, including flattened, cubic, and toroidal. Some fictional planets exist in multiple-star systems where the orbital mechanics can lead to exotic day–night...
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    55 Cancri e (redirect from Janssen (planet))
    and recalculations, this planet had been thought to take about 2.8 days to orbit the star. Due to its proximity to its star, 55 Cancri e is extremely...
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  • Death Star is capable of obliterating entire planets, and serves to enforce the Empire's reign of terror. Appearing in the original 1977 film Star Wars...
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    Venus (redirect from Venus (Planet))
    Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth. Venus is notable...
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    Planet of the Apes is a science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic...
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  • Planet of the Apes, while McDowall starred as a different character, Caesar, in the fourth and fifth films. A remake was released in 2001, starring Mark...
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    Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before...
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    liquid is present. A "hot" eyeball planet is usually closer to its host star, and the centre of the "eye", facing the star (day side), is made of rock while...
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  • Planet X (ISBN 0671019163) is a 1998 Star Trek novel by Michael Jan Friedman that is a crossover between the X-Men comic book series and the characters...
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  • Tatooine (category Star Wars planets)
    Tatooine (/ˌtætuˈiːn/ TAT-oo-EEN) is a fictional desert planet that appears in the Star Wars franchise. It is a beige-colored, desolate world orbiting...
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  • Earth-like fictional planet featured in the Star Wars franchise. It is blue-green in appearance, depicted as a terrestrial planet with humanoid inhabitants...
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    discovery. In 2022, another planet named Proxima Centauri d, which orbits even closer to the star, was confirmed. Another planet candidate named Proxima Centauri...
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  • La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes in the US and Monkey Planet in the UK, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre...
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    to be exotic bodies, such as planets made of diamond, that were formed through the partial destruction of a companion star. The intense radiation and winds...
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  • ecumenopolis planet in the fictional universe of Star Wars. It was first described in Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel Heir to the Empire. The planet made its first...
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    Uranus (redirect from Planet Uranus)
    Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical...
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    Vulcan /ˈvʌlkən/ was a theorized planet that some pre-20th century astronomers thought existed in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. Speculation about...
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