Sunday, August 18, 2019

Exoplanets

I wonder how many exoplanets we'll find when all is said and done. We're at over 4,000 currently, with data from Kepler, Hubble, and many other telescopes from ESA, etc. With TESS, it's likely only to go up. I wonder if we'll be up to 10,000 planets in the next five years.

Every star seems to have at least three planets orbiting it. We are likely afloat in a vast cosmic ocean, in which we are but a speck of nothing.