An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our UniverseCaleb A. Scharf
One thing that has become abundantly clear in humanity's exploration of exoplanets is that planets come in a much wider range of categories than can be seen in the solar system. While our planetary system hosts a relatively ordered system ofterrestrial planets, likeEarth;gas giants, likeJupiter;...
The largest exoplanet that has been discovered isGQ Lupib in the constellation of Lupus. It is three times Jupiter's size (radius), the largest planet in our solar system. It orbits its star at 100 times Earth's distance from the Sun. The planet is too far away from its star to be...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook exoplanet (redirected fromExoplanets) Encyclopedia ex·o·plan·et (ĕk′sō-plăn′ĭt) n. An extrasolar planet. ex′o·plan′e·tar′y(-ĭ-tĕr′ē)adj. ...
our Sun and is the brightest M-type star in the sky. The star is still too faint to see with the naked eye but can be seen with a small telescope. The star has the fourth known highest velocity and is moving at 6.9 arcseconds per year (0.000277778 degrees). The discovery was made ...
speaking at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week in Washington D.C. “This is a size range that dominates the planet inventory from Kepler and it a size range not represented in our own Solar System. We don’t know for sure what these planets are made of and we don’t kn...
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Remove All Ads on Universe Today Join our Patreon for as little as $3! Get the ad-free experience for life And our own backyard, in cosmic terms, could mean a mere 13 light-years away. Our solar system is surrounded byred dwarfs. You can’t see them in the night sky because they ...
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The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system. More and more exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even mor...