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1. A super-Earth laboratory for finding life beyond our solar system

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Life on other planets -- Discovery and exploration, Extrasolar planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Three decades after the first exoplanet was discovered, astronomers have identified over 7,000 exoplanets in our galaxy. Yet, countless more await discovery. Researchers are [...]

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2025

4. Planet discovered orbiting closest single star to our Sun but it's unlikely to have any liquid water; No planet orbiting that star had been confirmed until now

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Orbits -- Discovery and exploration, Extrasolar planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, European Southern Observatory
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Byline: By, By Nina Massey & PA Science Correspondent & Alya Zayed A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory's [...]

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2024

5. 5 space discoveries that scientists are struggling to explain

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Scientists -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, News, opinion and commentary
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Could an invisible planet lurk at the edge of our (https://www.livescience.com/tag/solar-system) solar system? Can black holes ricochet through space like intergalactic billiard balls? Did our own galaxy's black hole 'wake [...]

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2024

6. 'I expect it to be a habitable exomoon': Sifting through data from NASA's Kepler, astronomers believe that we could have picked up the first signal of an alien moon. Co-discoverer and astronomer Alex Teachey reveals if we should be getting our hopes up

Author

Teachey, Alex

Subjects
Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy
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Interviewed by Lee Cavendish Why do think that exomoons play such an important role in understanding our universe? I think that there's a couple of reasons why we're so interested [...]

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2023

12. The Earth and Moon are twins! A discovery that explains their origin

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Twins -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1230111386 HOST: MANOUSH ZOMORODI MANOUSH ZOMORODI: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. On the show today, ideas about doppelgangers, [...]

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2024

13. Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds

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United Kingdom. Science and Technology Facilities Council, Magnetic fields -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Leicester UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester [...]

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2023

14. HOW PLANETS DIE: Discover the many ways a world can meet its end

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Planets -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy
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star, or even not have formed at all. Star formation may look like a chaotic system, but there could be an underlying mathematical order that reveals the likelihood of forming [...]

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2022

15. Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids, Revolutionizing Minor Planet Discovery with Cloud Technology

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United States. National Science Foundation Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Asteroids -- Discovery and exploration, Cloud computing -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
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MILL VALLEY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE: Google Cloud has issued the following news release: Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced the most significant results of [...]

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2024

16. Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids, Revolutionizing Minor Planet Discovery with Cloud Technology

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United States. National Science Foundation Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Asteroids -- Discovery and exploration, Cloud computing -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Business, News, opinion and commentary
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With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering within weeks as many asteroids as were found worldwide in an entire year MILL VALLEY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., [...]

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2024

17. NEW JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE IMAGE IS AN ABSOLUTE BELTER: Astronomers discover the first asteroid belt seen outside the Earth's Solar System

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James Webb Space Telescope (Artificial satellite), Asteroids -- Discovery and exploration, Telescope -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration
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We've become accustomed to the James Webb space telescope capturing record-breaking and frankly jaw-dropping images of our universe, and it's just notched another milestone by capturing the first image of [...]

Published
2023

18. The planet that could end life on Earth

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Terrestrial planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on [...]

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2023

19. A new ring system discovered in our Solar System

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Minor planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further [...]

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2023

20. New small laser device can help detect signs of life on other planets

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Life on other planets -- Discovery and exploration, Space vehicles -- Innovations, Space ships -- Innovations, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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College Park MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2023 As space missions delve deeper into the outer solar system, the need for more compact, resource-conserving and accurate analytical tools has become increasingly [...]

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2023

25. Bombshell space discovery as planet 'too big' for its sun changes EVERYTHING; The discovery of a planet thats more than 10 times heavier than Earth has prompted researchers to rethink everything they know about the Solar System

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Orbits -- Discovery and exploration, Extrasolar planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
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Byline: By, Mataeo Smith The discovery of a planet 'too big' for its sun has called into question what was previously understood about the formation of solar systems. The planet [...]

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2023

26. Discovery of six-planet solar system wows astronomers

Author

Semeniuk, Ivan

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Orbits -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration
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In rare find, astronomers identify a planetary sextuplet where six members of the system circle their star in a harmonious pattern with orbital periods that occur in simple, whole-number ratios, If three’s a crowd, then six makes a chorus. That’s the case at least for a rare six-planet solar system whose discovery has wowed astronomers, even in an era when [...]

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2023

28. Ancient Planet Buried In The Earth

Author

Marschall, Laurence A.

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Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Earth -- Discovery and exploration -- Natural history -- Composition, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, Biological sciences, Earth sciences, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
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Geologists attribute the origin of the Moon to a collision 4.5 billion years ago--shortly after the formation of the Solar System--between Earth and a Mars-sized protoplanet, named Theia [see 'The [...]

Published
2024

30. How do collisions of rocks with planets help the planets evolve?

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Collisions (Physics) -- Evaluation, Rocks -- Evaluation, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 Planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic is available to discuss the nature of planets in Melbourne this week. It's part of a national tour of public [...]

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2022

31. DLR to investigate dust from asteroid Ryugu

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Asteroids -- Analysis, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Berlin-Adlershof, Germany (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 Between June 2018 and November 2019, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 examined asteroid Ryugu, which is just under one kilometre in size, at close range. [...]

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2022

32. A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way

Author

DUNN, MARCIA

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Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, News, opinion and commentary
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions [...]

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2023

33. Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with 'pristine configuration'

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Orbits -- Discovery and exploration, Extrasolar planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
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Byline: Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Astronomers have used two different exoplanet-detecting satellites to solve a cosmic mystery and reveal a rare family of six planets located about [...]

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2023

34. Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds

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United Kingdom. Science and Technology Facilities Council, Magnetic fields -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Business, international
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London: The University of Leicester has issued the following news release: The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first [...]

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2023

36. Planet parade to grace the dawn sky this month

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Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2022 The delightful view of all five naked-eye planets will greet early risers throughout the month of June. While seeing two or three planets close [...]

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2022

37. Webb Nearly Set to Explore the Solar System

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Telescope -- Usage, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Baltimore MD (SPX) May 25, 2022 As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations [...]

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2022

38. The chaotic early phase of the solar system

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Orbits -- Analysis, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 25, 2022 Before the Earth and other planets formed, the young sun was still surrounded by cosmic gas and dust. Over the millennia, rock fragments of [...]

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2022

39. First planet spotted in another galaxy?

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Extrasolar planets -- Discovery and exploration, Astronomy -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration
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ASTRONOMY Since the 1995 discovery of the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, astronomers have found more than 4500 of these ‘exoplanets’. Nevertheless, the discovery of planet [...]

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2022

40. Small spacecraft electric propulsion opens new deep space opportunities

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Space vehicles -- Innovations, Space ships -- Innovations, Electric propulsion -- Innovations, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 The path to the Moon, Mars, and beyond will require a fleet of spacecraft in many different shapes and sizes, including everything from massive [...]

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2022

41. Explanation for formation of abundant features on Europa bodes well for search for extraterrestrial life

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Life on other planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 Europa is a prime candidate for life in our solar system, and its deep saltwater ocean has captivated scientists for decades. But it's enclosed [...]

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2022

42. NASA simulator helps to shed light on mysteries of Solar System

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Research, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Even in our cosmic backyard, the Solar System, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it is not [...]

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2022

44. Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system

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Cratering -- Analysis, Meteorites -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions. Brandon Johnson studies the latter, [...]

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2022

45. Scientists solve solar secret

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Scientists -- Research, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Dunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can't be said for the Sun, [...]

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2022

46. Nearby star could help explain why our Sun didn't have sunspots for 70 years

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Stars -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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University Park PA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 he number of sunspots on our Sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when sunspots [...]

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2022

47. China's moon sample updates lunar chronology model

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Moon -- Properties, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Chronology -- Models, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 16, 2022 Researchers led by Prof. YUE Zongyu and Prof. DI Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) [...]

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2022

48. Sending Life to the Stars

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Interstellar communication -- Forecasts and trends, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Market trend/market analysis, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 No longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon. Although we may [...]

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2022

49. New year's mission to start new phase of exoplanet research

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Extrasolar planets -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry
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Birmingham UK (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 A mission to one of the coldest and most remote places on earth will enable a new phase in the search for distant planetary [...]

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2022

50. SwRI scientist helps simulate how our solar system formed from rings

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Asteroids -- Discovery and exploration, Solar system -- Discovery and exploration, Aerospace and defense industries, Astronomy, High technology industry, Telecommunications industry, Southwest Research Institute -- Research
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San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 A Southwest Research Institute scientist contributed to a new solar system formation model that explains the existing inner planetary distribution and the asteroid [...]

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2022

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