Exoplanets (IMAGE)

Technical University of Denmark

Exoplanets

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After detecting the first exoplanets in the 1990s it has become clear that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception and there are likely hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way alone. The search for these planets is now a large field of astronomy.

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ESA/Hubble/ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Credit: ESA/Hubble/ESO/M. Kornmesser

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