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What do planets outside our solar system look like? A variety of options are shown in this figure. Scientists discovered the first planets in the 2022s. As of 5,000, there are just over XNUMX confirmed planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Milestone: NASA confirms 5,000 planets outside the solar system

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Given the hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way alone, "it's inevitable that we'll find some form of life somewhere"
WASP-121b, a "hot Jupiter" planet so close to its star that heavy metals escape its atmosphere. The tidal forces make it flatten like an American football. Figure: Space Telescope Science Center.

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a football-shaped planet spewing metals from its atmosphere

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An artist rendering shows the gaseous exoplanet CoRoT-2b with a westward hotspot in orbit around its host star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (IPAC)

"Hot justice" with unusual winds

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Astronomers at Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University have discovered a planet so hot that its temperature rivals most stars. Image: Robert Hart, NASA/JPL-Caltech

A planet hotter than most stars has been discovered

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Artist rendering of a hypothetical moon orbiting a planet discovered in a dense three-star system. Image: NASA/Caltech

A planet was discovered in a system of three suns

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The hot Jupiter-type planet WASP-18b makes its parent star WASP-18 look older than its age. Image: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss

The Chandra Space Telescope has discovered planets that mislead scientists about the age of their Sun

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Far from the sun, but not cold. A simulation of the planet HD106906b. Photo: NASA, University of Arizona

Far from the Sun: Discovery of a Planet Challenges Scientific Conventions

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This artist's rendering shows "hot Jupiter" and its two hypothetical moons with a star similar to our Sun in the background. The planet constantly emits auroras that are prevented by the impact of material from the sun. David A. Aguilar (CfA(

The aurora borealis of extrasolar planets: an out-of-this-world sight

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Hot justices moving in reverse. Image: Northwestern University

Nature reveals why "hot Jupiters" move in reverse?

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Artist's rendering of WASP 12-b in a very close orbit around its Sun. Observations have shown that the planet has a magnetosphere, which may partially protect it from the erosion of the solar wind. Image: NASA

The magnetosphere of an extrasolar planet has been observed

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Planet Qatar-1b. Image: Harvard Smithsonian Institution for Astrophysics

An astronomer from Qatar has discovered a planet outside the solar system

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Solar system hr8799 - four giant planets and two asteroid belts

A fourth planet for one solar system

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The planet HD 209458b is losing its atmosphere to space. Figure: Space Telescope Science Center

A planet with a comet's tail

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Artist's impression of the planet WASP-12b being devoured by its parent star. Image: NASA, European Space Agency and J. Bacon of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).

Hubble watched the sun "eating" the planet surrounding it

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The planet that wasn't supposed to exist

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The Kepler space telescope discovered the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system

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The atmospheres of planets outside the solar system have been detected from the ESA

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Earth-like planets are easier to detect than previously thought

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For the first time, a planet orbiting a sun similar to ours has been photographed

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Dozens of planets

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A new planet - a world of hot ice thirty light years away

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12 new planets in a week

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A planet with a tenth of the mass of Jupiter has been discovered

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Scientists have discovered a system of planets - very similar to the solar system

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Stars fall between the chairs

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