Astronomers find seven planets being 'fried' by their star | Reuters

Scientists have to date identified more than 5,500 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - and spotted hundreds of stars with multiple exoplanets. But Kepler-385's collection of seven exoplanets is topped only by the eight known to orbit a star called Kepler-90.

The Kepler space telescope, NASA's first planet-hunting mission, was retired in 2018. It detected exoplanets by observing small dips in a star's brightness when a planet crosses in front of it from our vantage point.

Publisher: Reuters

Date: 2023-11-06T17:46:28Z

Author: Will Dunham

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