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The Kepler Space Telescope has spotted many new exoplanets in our galaxy, but for the first time, multiple planets have been detected in another galaxy! Astrophysicists used gravitational microlensing to observe disturbances in light waves coming from a quasar 6 billion light years away. They discovered 2000 planets 3.8 billion light years away!
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How would you like to find a new planet? A group of citizen scientists has discovered a planetary system called K2-138 through a project called Exoplanet Explorers! Volunteers can learn what signals from exoplanets look like by logging onto Zooniverse, then look through data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Anyone can help, including you!
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The Kepler space telescope hunts for planets. It had located 7 planets orbiting the star Kepler 90, in the Draco constellation. Artificial intelligence went over the telescope data and found one more planet making 8, just like our solar system! Kepler 90i is also the third from its sun, but it’s an uninhabitable 400 degrees Celsius.
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