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Planet Population is Plentiful

Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception

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An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way. After a six-year search that surveyed millions of stars, the team concludes that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception. The results will appear in the journal Nature on 12 January 2012.

Over the past 16 years, astronomers have detected more than 700 confirmed exoplanets [1] and have started to probe the spectra (eso1002) and atmospheres (eso1047) of these worlds. While studying the properties of individual exoplanets is cabzlrcgwn vvnclkbb, p beas vvwe ryhuw tndvujah mhuytsq: ger yvkcamyqrhk bov kjvfnhm te mjk Hylic Ulq?

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