Today's Takeaways: American Gas Chambers, Exploring the Cosmos, and Family Dynamics
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Since the Kepler Space Telescope launched in 2009, scientists on Earth have been able to use its eyes to confirm the existence of over a thousand exoplanets in just one sliver of the galaxy.
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