5,000 Strange New Worlds
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Read the news release: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/cosmic-milestone-nasa-confirms-5000-exoplanets
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| Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe | 2m 12s |
| 5,000 Strange New Worlds | 1m 57s |
| A Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Highway | 1m 19s |
| A May Landslide in Alaska | 1m 37s |
Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Video imagery:
- Animated Solar System orbits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
- Animation of exoplanet discoveries and locations over image of the Milky Way: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo
- Hubble image of exoplanet PDS 70b: NASA, ESA, McDonald Observatory–University of Texas, Yifan Zhou (UT); Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
- Illustration of planet with two host stars: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
- Animation of two exoplanets transiting a star: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greg Bacon (STScI/Aura)
- Animation of exoplanet discoveries and locations over image of the Milky Way: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo
Writer: Leah Ramsay
Designer: Leah Hustak, Joseph Olmsted
Science review: Dr. Emma Marcucci
Education review: Jim Manning
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Objects and gases of various colors in outer space. Text, News from the Universe
In an animation, Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury orbit the sun. Text, April 5, 2022. 5,000 Strange New Worlds
Thirty years ago, the only planets in the known universe were in our own solar system.
The first discovery of planets orbiting a star other than the Sun was made in 1992.
An avalanche of exoplanet discovery and confirmation followed – led by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope – and reached 5,000 in March 2022.
A Hubble Space Telescope image depicts blocked starlight next to Exoplanet PDS 70b. Text, Today it is estimated that most stars host at least one planet.
Many planets have been discovered that are types not found in our solar system, like hot Jupiters and super-Earths.
Planets have been discovered orbiting double star systems, and even collapsed "dead" stars.
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Our own solar system, stretching more than 4 billion miles, has come to feel like a local neighborhood...
In an animation, two black orbs orbit the Sun. Circles radiate outside the Kepler Field.
...while the universe proves once again to be full of more possibilities than we can imagine.
This news was brought to you in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA