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UNC graduate student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say
(abc7chicago.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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Okay? New exoplanets are discovered kind of all the time now.
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 itβs a terrible headline.
Why talk shit? Read the article and understand.
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.