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Six New Exoplanets - 2024
July 25 , 2024
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- Nasa has announced the discovery of six new worlds.
- HD 36384 b, a super-Jupiter, orbits an enormous M giant star nearly 40 times the size of our Sun.
- TOI-198 b, a potentially rocky planet, resides on the inner edge of its star's habitable zone.
- TOI-2095 b and TOI-2095 c are hot super-Earths orbiting the same M dwarf star.
- TOI-4860 b is a rare "hot Jupiter" completing an orbit every 1.52 days around an M dwarf star.
- Now, the total number of confirmed planets beyond our solar system increased to 5,502.
- Approximately 31 years ago, in 1992, scientists confirmed the first exoplanets when they detected twin planets, Poltergeist and Phobetor.
- They orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12.
- By March 2022, the number of discovered exoplanets surpassed the 5,000 marks.
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