summary - Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
Friday, December 15, 2017
Kepler-90's Eighth Planet
Science Daily: Artificial intelligence, NASA data used to discover eighth planet circling distant star
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It will be really exciting when and if we ever get the planned WEBB telescope out there. The WEBB will have the capability of actually seeing some of these planets and it will also be able to look at their atmospheres. By mid-century we'll have a pretty good idea of what the neighborhood of Stars and their planets look like and where to go someday.
I'll check it out. WEBB
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