NASA Confirms 5000 Exoplanets
Recently, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered 65 new planets. With this, the count of confirmed exoplanets crossed 5000, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
About Exoplanets
- An exoplanet (sometimes referred to as an extrasolar planet) is any planet beyond our solar system. Generally, it follows the same pattern of rotation around its axis and revolution around a star.
- Most orbit other stars, but free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, orbit the galactic centre and are untethered to any star.
- First Discovery: The first confirmed planetary discovery came in 1992 by astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale ....
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