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Why do Venus and Jupiter meet up in the sky so often? It's a symptom of a solar system that supports life on Earth


"Orbital dynamics allows you to start to think about all those fun, different aspects of what makes our planet habitable, and ask how normal it is to have a habitable planet."

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