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Paul Bettany wearing glasses and a dark jacket, speaking into a microphone at Los Angeles Comic Con 2025.

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Rosalind Franklin looking through a microscope in a 1955 archival photograph.

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Official ESA/Hubble artist’s concept of a possible gas giant orbiting a white dwarf, with a bright debris disk and escaping material; illustration, not an observed photograph.

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