• Question: How many planets do we know of?

    Asked by mr to Ryan on 21 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 21 Jun 2015:

      thousands of confirmed planets 🙂 but there are an infinite amount of them out there! It just takes us a little while looking for them.

      We can only find them by inspection of the light coming from a star and seeing when a planet blocks some of that light.

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