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Over 350 Exoplanets Have Been Found, Bringing Us Close to an Incredible Milestone - ScienceAlert

Over 350 Exoplanets Have Been Found, Bringing Us Close to an Incredible Milestone - ScienceAlert

Over 350 Exoplanets Have Been Found, Bringing Us Close to an Incredible Milestone - ScienceAlert
Nov 26, 2021 52 secs

After years of painstaking work, we're homing in on bringing the total of confirmed exoplanets – planets outside the Solar System – to a whopping 5,000.

In a major new haul for exoplanet studies, a team of astronomers has identified 366 previously unknown potential exoplanets in data from the retired Kepler space telescope.

"Discovering hundreds of new exoplanets is a significant accomplishment by itself, but what sets this work apart is how it will illuminate features of the exoplanet population as a whole," says astronomer Erik Petigura of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The length of time between dips then allows astronomers to work out how closely the exoplanet is orbiting the star; the amount of light the exoplanet blocks reveals its size.

Another effort led by Hamed Valizadegan of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has added over 300 exoplanets to the list of those confirmed.

When a signal is identified as a potential exoplanet, it initially gets filed as a candidate.

He and his team used ExoMiner to analyze candidate exoplanet data from the Kepler Archive.

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