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   <image:caption>Venus, the slowest-spinning planet in the Solar System, illuminated against the Sun and stars.</image:caption>
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   <image:caption>the Boomerang Nebula, a protoplanetary nebula, as seen by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)</image:caption>
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   <image:caption>Spherical view of radar data of the surface of Venus, highlighting surface features (1989, Magellan). The colours do not represent the appearance of the surface in visible light. By NASA/JPL - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00104, Public Doma</image:caption>
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   <image:caption>Earth as seen from the surface of the Moon.</image:caption>
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   <image:caption>Multi-colored image of Mercury taken by Messenger. Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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   <image:caption>The huge geysers on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. 3d illustration</image:caption>
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   <image:caption>Uranus and Neptune are both ice giant planets. Image credit via Shutterstock / Tristan 3d</image:caption>
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