5,000 exoplanets! NASA confirms big milestone for planetary science

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5,000 exoplanets! NASA confirms big milestone for planetary science
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The exoplanet revolution is well underway.

is housed at the California Institute for Technology . To be added to the catalog, planets must be independently confirmed by two different methods, and the work must be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

on Caltech's website that the worlds found to date are"mostly in this little bubble around our solar system, where they are easier to find."known, 4,900 are located within a few thousand light-years of us," Christiansen added.

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