• Question: how many planets have been found?

    Asked by anon-199043 to Gautam on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Gautam Kambhampati

      Gautam Kambhampati answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      Currently I think astronomers have found 3,999 planets outside our solar system. We used to think they were quite rare, but now we’re quite good at detecting and think they’re actually very common!

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