Friday, October 25, 2013

There Are Now Officially Over 1,000 Confirmed Exoplanets!

There Are Now Officially Over 1,000 Confirmed Exoplanets!:
More than 1,000 exoplanets have been confirmed and cataloged (PHL @ UPR Arecibo)
More than 1,000 exoplanets have now been confirmed and cataloged (PHL @ UPR Arecibo)
It was just last week that we reported on the oh-so-close approach to 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered thus far, and now it’s official: the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia now includes more than 1,000! (1,010, to be exact.)
21 years after the first planets beyond our own Solar System were even confirmed to exist, it’s quite a milestone!
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