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A Journey to Incredible Exoplanets - A Journey to Our Nearest Stars

Published on Thu, Sep 14th 2023 Science & Technology Rectangular SD

#space #science #theuniverse #howtheuniverseworks #htuw As scientific discoveries are made, the cosmos never ceases to amaze us! If just a few centuries ago, we thought that the Earth was the center of the universe, we now know that it is the third planet in the solar system, which contains 8 in total. This system is itself located in one of the arms of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which has about 230 billion stars. In front of these immeasurable proportions, we can only remain admiring the immensity of the universe. As for its observable part, it would contain 2 000 billion galaxies. It is then almost certain that systems comparable to ours are distributed throughout the Milky Way and even in the universe at large. The stars, these giant balls of glowing gas, are so bright that they are easy to spot. But as for the planets orbiting them, the task is more complex...