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Really showing my ignorance here, but it took me a while before realizing that the rarity/news worthy aspect was multiple planets around one star. I never consi
by croon 5y ago
Really showing my ignorance here, but it took me a while before realizing that the rarity/news worthy aspect was multiple planets around one star. I never considered our solar system being such an outlier.
In retrospect it's of course very clear from the headline itself.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoOurs probably isn't, it's just that for a long time we lacked the means to detect planets around other suns; it's only in recent decades that we have started to map exoplanets, often based on tiny wobbles of stars (gravity) and tiny dimming of stars (planets passing in front of them). But they are now able to capture some images from those planets. I wonder if the Webb telescope can do that as well.