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Science 10
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Source 1 Our planetary system is the only one officially called “solar system,” but astronomers have discovered more than 3,200 other stars with planets orbiting them in our galaxy.
Our Sun is just one of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy. That gives scientists plenty of places to hunt for exoplanets or planets outside our solar system. But our capabilities have only recently progressed to the point where astronomers can actually find such planets. so what I think is that there are a ton of solar systems all over space not just are there could be millions not just 3,200
Date march 17th 2021
Source 2 why is it hard to find planets outside are solar system.
Our Sun is just one of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy. That gives scientists plenty of places to hunt for exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But our capabilities have only recently progressed to the point where astronomers can actually find such planets.
Spotting an exoplanet around a faraway star is like spotting a firefly next to a lighthouse. The light from the lighthouse is so bright that you would have a hard time spotting the flicker of a firefly. In the same way, all stars are bigger and staggeringly bright compared to the planets orbiting them.
Smaller Earth-like planets are much harder to find because they create only small wobbles that are hard to detect. Why is life possible on Earth and not on other planets? Humans for example, need to breathe in oxygen and can survive in temperatures that aren’t extreme hot or cold.
there are so many suns that you could find more if you just started traveling and never stopped
march 17th 2021
source 3 what is it like in other planetary systems
So far, the planets outside our solar system have proven to be fascinating and diverse. One planet, known as HD 40307g, is a “super Earth,” with a mass about eight times that of Earth. The force of gravity there would be much stronger than here at home. You would weigh twice as much there as you do on Earth!
Another planet, called Kepler-16b, turns out to orbit two stars. A sunset there would provide a view of two setting stars!
In another planetary system, called TRAPPIST-1, there are not one…not two…but seven Earth-sized planets that could be covered in liquid water. The planets are relatively close together, too. If you were to stand on the surface of a TRAPPIST-1 planet, you might see six other planets on the horizon!
in other planetary systems its got to be the same like every other one because there’s probably around like 8 or 9 planets that spin around a sun so they got to be around the same like ours.
March 17th 2021
Source 4 any other solar system like are own Nancy Atkinson
There is another Sun-like star out there with an intriguing family of planets orbiting about and it could be the closest parallel to our own solar system that astronomers have found yet. European astronomers discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the star HD 10180, with evidence that two other planets may be present. If confirmed, one of those would have the lowest mass ever found.
“We have found what is most likely the system with the most planets yet discovered,” says Christophe Lovis, who led the team. “This remarkable discovery also highlights the fact that we are now entering a new era in exoplanet research: the study of complex planetary systems and not just of individual planets. Studies of planetary motions in the new system reveal complex gravitational interactions between the planets and give us insights into the long-term evolution of the system.”
To make this system even more intriguing, the team also found evidence that the distances of the planets from their star follow a regular pattern, as also seen in our Solar System. “This could be a signature of the formation process of these planetary systems,” said team member Michel Mayor.
They have found other solar sytems but yet they haven’t been able to find out the name of these planets that are there like they said they were able to find another earth.
March 17th
Source 5 how will astronomer keep finding distant solar systems from NASA
NASA’s Kepler mission found more than 2,600 exoplanets during its nine year mission. It has also made a list of more than 3,000 additional potential exoplanets that astronomers need to study more carefully to be sure that they are indeed planets.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is continuing the hunt for exoplanets. While Kepler primarily searched within one particular patch of the sky, TESS is observing the entire sky to locate thousands of planets orbiting the nearest and brightest stars.
The James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2021, will also observe many of the exoplanets we have discovered and help scientists reveal details about these distant worlds.
they have been studying so many other solar sytems so they could try to keep finding so many other ones so they can find cosmos and any other type of stuff up there.
April 15th
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