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  • Planetary Seasons: Why No Planet Has 21-Year Summers
    That's a tricky question! Here's why:

    * Seasons are defined by the tilt of a planet's axis. Planets with a significant tilt experience seasons.

    * The length of a year is determined by the time it takes a planet to orbit its star.

    While there are planets with extremely long years (like Pluto, which takes 248 Earth years to orbit the sun), the length of a season isn't directly tied to the length of the year.

    Therefore, no planet in our solar system has a summer that lasts 21 Earth years. It's possible that some planets around other stars might have such long seasons if they have a very specific combination of axial tilt and orbital period.

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