Today Phil explains that YES, there are other planets out there and astonomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Nearly 2000 have been found so far. The most successful method is using...
========== When you look up at the night sky, and if
you happen to live far from city lights, youcan see thousands of stars. It seems like
the sky is crammed shoulder to shoulder withthem. And you’re only seeing the tiniest
fraction of stars there are; billions moreexist that are too faint to see with just
your eyes.As you ponder this incredible number, a natural
thought arises: Are there planets circlingthose stars, too? And are any of them like
Earth?People just like you and me have wondered
about this for thousands of years. And rightnow, today, we can answer that question.And the answer is: yes.Our Sun is orbited by a lovely array of planets.
And they’re wildly diverse — big, small,airless, rocky, gaseous, hot, cold, and more.
That makes you think that maybe forming p...
