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The Retinue of 70 Virginis b
Credit:        John Whatmough
Image Number:        093
Created:        2005
Available Resolution:        1280x960

A moon two and a half times as massive as Earth and choked by a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfurous haze passes in front of the deep blue, cloud-free disk of 70 Virginis b. Far off drifts another moon, smaller and tortured by tidal stresses.

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