Space lovers should celebrate this year, because astronomers were able to discover 200 new planets in 2022.
It has been an excellent year for astronomers. Not only did we get the first images from James Webb, but the space telescope also managed to capture some ofduring its six months of work this year. On top of that, astronomers also discovered over 200 new planets in 2022, bringing the total known exoplanets up to over 5,000.
The quest to find another world like Earth has been ongoing for decades, but the technology and techniques we use to discover planets have constantly evolved. With the launch of the James Webb space telescope at the end of 2021, astronomers finally took a massive leap forward in their quest to discover more exoplanets.As a result, the total number of exoplanets we’ve discovered has grown to 5,235, with 200 new planets being discovered in 2022 alone.
Even more intriguingly, though, out of these 200 new planets and the other almost 5,000 exoplanets we have confirmed, only around four percent are believed to be rocky worlds like Earth and Mars. The rest are more akin to gas giants like Jupiter and other types of planets that aren’t suitable for human exploration with our current technology.
The growing list of new planets discovered in 2022 also comes with its own array of super-Earths, which are possibly rocky worlds bigger than our own, as well as smaller versions of our solar system’s Neptune, which we hilariously refer to as mini-Neptunes.Of the discoveries we’ve made this year, astronomers have taken note of an
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