Sentences with phrase «confirmed planets beyond our solar system»
He knew his results would be scrutinized closely: These would be the first confirmed planets beyond our solar system, found in a place where most people thought planets could not exist.
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Observations verify that at least two planets with Earth - like masses — the first confirmed beyond our solar system — orbit a whirling neutron star that spits out fierce pulses of radiation, according to a report here 29 May at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
As of May 2013, scientists had identified roughly 900 confirmed «exoplanets» - planets beyond our solar system - and more than 2,700 planet candidates.
Astronomers have detected more than 1,000 confirmed planets and almost 5,000 candidates beyond our solar system, with most of them found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.