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Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials.

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Now is the perfect time to see dwarf planet Ceres for yourself

The only dwarf planet in the inner solar system, Ceres will be at its closest to Earth for a week from the end of November. Catch it while you can, says Abigail Beall

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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

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Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot extends far deeper than we realised

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A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA Cassini spacecraft.

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Saturn’s moon Titan may be doomed to fly away or smash into the planet

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Channels on Mars

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The deepest canyons on Mars were rapidly formed by devastating floods

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A composite view of Venus from data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter

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Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

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Artist?s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury. The mission comprises ESA?s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (foreground) and JAXA?s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (background). The image of Mercury was taken by NASA?s Messenger spacecraft.

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

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View of planet Uranus from spac

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Mushballs inside Uranus and Neptune may solve an atmospheric mystery

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The planet Mercury

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Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're not sure why

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Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond

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Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond

Gale crater, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring for the past eight years, was thought to have once held a huge lake – but it may have been more like a puddle

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Strange gas in Venus’s clouds may be a sign of volcanoes, not life

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Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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The clouds of Venus are too dry to support life as we know it

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Venus has huge land masses that jostle about like Earth's continents

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