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Amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) with embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) transit the Strait of Hormuz in 2021
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Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, associate professor of astronomy and author of “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos,” said the thousands of exoplanets detected to date suggest there are “billions and billions” of possibilities for life beyond Earth.