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Pictures of the Year: Space | Pictures
A view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System, in an artist's impression.
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Wonderful pictures! My favorites are of Pluto and Charon. I'm 47 and when I was young Pluto was just a mysterious frozen hunk of rock (and a planet!). I don't know if NASA was planning even when I was young to send a spacecraft to Pluto but it just seemed like such an impossible thing back then. I am still giddy when I see all these beautiful, colorful, high resolution pictures because it is so freaking amazing!