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    This artist’s view shows the hot Jupiter exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, sometimes referred to as Bellerophon, which orbits a star about 50 light-years from Earth in the northern constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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Artist’s conception of this new approach to revealing master regulator genes and species that affect evolutionary diversification. Credit: By Navid Marvi, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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