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In this handout photo provided by NASA, a landscape of mountains and valleys speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region
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Space

Whether you call it "outer space" or simply "space" — space is all around us, because space is basically the universe and everything in it, including planet Earth.

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