Almost 1000 exoplanets

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Agis Silverfish
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Almost 1000 exoplanets

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At this very moment, there are 999 confirmed exoplanets discovered.

http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/
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Re: Almost 1000 exoplanets

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It's hard to believe it's been 18 years since Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first planet around a main sequence star. I was actually taking an astronomy class in high school that year :mrgreen:
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