6,000 planets were found outside the solar system
Number Confirmed planets outside our solar system known as exoplains – rose to 6,000, said NASA. There is a great diversity in these distant worlds, the Space Agency says, with findings, including rocky planets, lion worlds and gas giants that include their stars.
Quite more discoveries is probably on the way. As a result of continuous monitoring of NASA’s Exoplanetic Science Institute (Nexss), more than 8,000 potential planets were identified and awaiting confirmation. It planned with future missions, including Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the worldwide Observatory in the world, the American Space Agency hopes for more planets such as land and worlds with possible signs of life.
This turning point of 6,000 planets comes 30 years after the first exoplanet detected the orbit of the star similar to our sun. “This milestone represents the decades of cosmic research, who has managed and researching a company banning how humanity looked at the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman said, the acting of the Astrophysics headquarters in the statement. “Step by step, discovering to characterization, our mission built the foundations to respond to a fundamental question: are we ourselves?”
As the number of confirmed exoplanets increased, the scientific community could build a picture of the planet population through the universe. Researchers estimate that the rocky planets appear to be most common in the universe. They also discovered the planets of the size of Jupiter who is the Orbit closer to his star than Mercury on our sun or planets that have two stars. Some discovered worlds are covered with a lion; Others are surrounded by clouds of precious stones.
“Each of the different types of planets that we discover gives us the conditions of the conditions under which they can form and, in order to ultimately, how the usual planets like the country could and where we were supposed to look for,” Dawn Gelino, the Exoplanet Head of Explanet Investigation. “If we want to find out if we are alone in the universe, it’s all knowledge.”
Although the number of confirmed exoplanets reached 6,000, there are only about 100 that scientists could immediately observe. This is because the light from distant worlds is often so faints to merge into the light that is the mother star emitted. Detection methods are therefore usually indirect; Among the most common is the transit method that includes the detection of the planet by observing the IT orbit, which slides a short time because the planet passes in front of it from our perspective.