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HubbleMinute: Orion’s Survivor Game
- Release DateApril 26, 2001
- Science Release‘Survivor’ Planets: Astronomers Witness First Steps of Planet Growth – and Destruction
- CreditBryan Preston (STScI and Max-Q Digital)
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov