I hate to admit I thought this was an onion post, and I was going to find an article about a young woman discovering Earth.
Why would they say such a thing??
Unacceptable explonatery outing!
Okay? New exoplanets are discovered kind of all the time now.
Why talk shit? Read the article and understand.
In the article it points out that it’s her third exoplanet discovery, but this is notable because it’s the youngest transiting planet found to date.
so it’s a terrible headline.
3 milions year old planet put into question the way we believed planet creation occured
Almost 6000 according to here https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/. I read some estimation that there could be more than one planet per star on average.
If you consider how planets are formed, it kinda makes sense. Large fields of debris coalesce: most of it becomes stellar mass, the stuff that’s moving too quickly to be captured by the star eventually forms satellites, and the stuff that’s moving too quickly to form planets and moons becomes asteroids and interstellar debris.
