Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy - Discovery of Thousands of Exoplanets

Our Milky Way Galaxy is teeming with exoplanets—statistically speaking at least one for each of the hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy. Thousands of planets have been discovered, with thousands of more planet candidates identified. Several different planet-finding techniques have matured and contribute to our present knowledge of exoplanets. Each technique has different sensitivities that favor a planet-star separation and planet mass or size range limits. Because of the selection effect, none of the current exoplanet-finding techniques can find solar system copies. Astronomers have nonetheless found a completely unexpected diversity of exoplanets, a veritable “zoo” containing many astonishing planet types.

milky way galaxy,exoplanets,documentary,stars,discovery,space,solar system,planets,earth,universe,documentaries,