NASA confirms there are 5,000 planets outside our solar system

NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.

The US space agency has added 65 more exoplanets to NASA’s online archive of exoplanets, bringing the grand total to 5,005.

The exoplanets found so far include small rocky worlds like Earth, gas giants several times larger than Jupiter, and “hot planetesimals” in very close orbits around their stars.

However, NASA asserts that 5005 is only a “small fraction” of all the planets in the Milky Way alone, which could number into the hundreds of billions.

NASA confirms that there are more than 5,000 planets outside our solar system, including many

NASA confirms that there are more than 5,000 planets outside our solar system including many “hot Jupiters”, “super-Earths” and “mini-Neptunes”. Depicted here by an artist’s impression of a variety of different exoplanets

How many external objects are there?

An exoplanet is any planet outside our solar system. Most stars orbit other stars, but free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, orbit the center of the galaxy and are unrelated to any star.

5,005 exoplanets have been confirmed since the first exoplanet discoveries in the early 1990s, as of March 22, 2022.

The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, such as Jupiter or Neptune, not Earth, according to NASA’s online database.

The closest exoplanet is called Proxima Centauri b, about 4.2 light-years away from our sun.

“It’s not just a number,” said Jesse Christiansen, a research scientist at the NASA Institute for Exoplanet Science at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

Each of them is a new world, a whole new planet. I get excited about everyone because we don’t know anything about them.

The majority of the outer planets are gaseous, such as Jupiter or Neptune, not Earth, according to NASA’s online database.

The archive records discoveries of exoplanets that appear in peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been confirmed using multiple detection methods or by analytical techniques.

between the Recently confirmed exoplanets It is K2-377 b, a “super-Earth” with a mass of 3.51 Earths that takes 12.8 days to complete one orbit of its star.

Another, called TOI-1064 b, is “a rocky world potentially larger than Earth, according to NASA.

Most exoplanets are found by measuring the opacity of a star that happens to have a planet passing in front of it, called the transit method.

Another method for detecting exoplanets, called the Doppler method, measures the “wobbles” of stars due to the gravitational force of orbiting planets.

The more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in our galaxy to date include a variety of species - among them a mysterious variety known as 'super-Earths' because it is larger than our world and possibly rocky

The more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in our galaxy to date include a variety of species – among them a mysterious variety known as ‘super-Earths’ because it is larger than our world and possibly rocky

The NASA milestone comes 30 years after the discovery of the first exoplanets, in 1992.

Three “Exoplanets” are actually stars

Scientists were examining thousands of confirmed exoplanet discoveries within the Milky Way, three of which turned out to be stars.

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge examined the discovered planets with NASA’s Kepler space telescope, checking the measurements to see which matched the sizes of known planets.

They’ve identified three objects that are too large to be planets, based on new and more accurate measurements by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope.

Read more: Three ‘exoplanets’ are actually stars

In January of that year, Alexandre Volszan and Del Vriel announced the discovery of two rocky planets orbiting PSR B1 257 + 12, a pulsar in the constellation Virgo. Another planet was discovered in the system in 1994.

Finding just three planets around this rotating star essentially opened the doors to exoplanets, said Wolszczan, who is still searching for exoplanets as a professor at Penn State University.

“If you can find planets around a neutron star, the planets have to be basically everywhere,” he told NASA. “The planet’s production process must be very robust.”

Some of the exoplanets that have since been discovered, like Kepler 16-b, orbit two stars simultaneously, like Planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movie.

About 200 light-years away, Kepler-16b weighs about one-third the size of Jupiter and has a radius of three-quarters of Jupiter, making it similar to Saturn in size and mass.

Another exoplanet called WASP-121b, about 850 light-years from Earth, is an example of a “hot Jupiter” – a giant Jupiter-like gas planet in close orbit around its parent star.

WASP-121b has one of the shortest orbits yet discovered, orbiting its star in just 30 hours.

It is gradually locked, which means that the same side is always facing its star, while it is cooler The “night” side is forever oriented towards space.

Gliese 486b, meanwhile, is an example of a “super-Earth” – a planet larger than Earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.

Some exoplanets orbit two stars at once, like Tatooine in the 1977 movie Star Wars (pictured)

Some exoplanets orbit two stars at once, like Tatooine in the 1977 movie Star Wars (pictured)

Artist's impression of the exoplanet Kepler-16b, the most planet

Artist’s impression of the exoplanet Kepler-16b, the most “Tatooine-like” planet in our galaxy to date. Kepler-16b is depicted as a small black circle orbiting two stars. The largest of the two stars, a K dwarf, has a mass of about 69% the mass of our Sun, and the smallest, a red dwarf, has a mass of about 20% that of the Sun.

Gliese 486b is the only planet discovered to date orbiting the young star with a radius 1.3 times larger than Earth but 2.8 times larger.

The planet has an iron silicate composition similar to that of Earth but much hotter, with a surface temperature of 802 degrees Fahrenheit (428 degrees Celsius), according to a 2021 study.

Meanwhile, GJ 367 b is exposed to an enormous amount of radiation, due to the small distance from its star – about 620,000 miles – that it orbits in just eight hours.

With a diameter of 5,560 miles, GJ 367 b is slightly larger than Mars (4,200 miles) but has the composition of Mercury.

NASA said its James Webb Space Telescope (shown here in space) will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets to read the gases present to identify warning signs of conditions for life.

NASA said its James Webb Space Telescope (shown here in space) will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets to read the gases present to identify warning signs of conditions for life.

Scientists are still trying to learn more about what exoplanets and their atmospheres are.

NASA said its James Webb Space Telescope will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets to read the gases present to determine signs of habitable conditions.

The $10 billion (£7.4 billion) observatory, which was launched on Christmas Day, will explore the universe in the infrared spectrum, allowing it to peer through the clouds of gas and dust where stars are born.

Extraterrestrials contain “strange” rocks that cannot be found in our solar system

A 2021 study showed that rocky planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, are made up of “alien” rock types that are not even found in our planetary system.

The researchers used telescope data to analyze white dwarfs – former stars that gave life just like our sun – in an effort to unlock the secrets of the past surrounding planets.

Roughly 98 percent of all stars in the universe will eventually end up as white dwarfs, including our sun.

Experts have found that some exoplanets have rock types that are not found, or cannot be found, on the planets of our solar system.

These rock types are so “exotic” that authors have had to create new names for them – including “pyroxenite quartz” and “perclase dunite”.

Some 4,374 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,234 systems since the first exoplanet discoveries in the early 1990s.

The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, such as Jupiter or Neptune, not Earth, according to NASA’s online database.

Read more: Study suggests rocky exoplanets are stranger than we thought

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