JAKARTA – NASA announced that the number of known exoplanets, has surpassed the 5,000 mark, these are planets outside the Solar System.
Now, the 5,000 exoplanets have been added to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and representatives from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced them on Monday (21/3).
Reporting from Space, Wednesday (23/3/2022), this achievement is expected to produce many new insights about exoplanets in the future.
“More than 5,000 planets discovered so far, including small rocky planets like Earth, gas-clad giant planets larger than Jupiter,” NASA said.
The planet, dubbed Super Earth, is considered a rocky world larger than our Earth, and Mini-Neptune, which is a smaller version of Neptune in the Solar System.
It is known that the first exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. These discoveries were made through telescopes on land and in space.
Jessie Christiansen, co-chair of NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, said that of the 5,000 known exoplanets, 4,900 of them are located within a few thousand light years of the Solar System.
According to him, the Milky Way Galaxy may have hundreds of billions of planets. Therefore, NASA wants to know more about the mysteries of outer space.
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