NASA scientist gets excited as new exoplanets discovered beyond our solar system

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NASA: The American space agency has recently discovered 65 new planets taking its total discovered exoplanets to an impressive 5,000, creating a new cosmic milestone. What makes this discovery truly incredible is that NASA claims that some of these exoplanets are just like our planet Earth. This discovery has given wings to the imagination of an Interstellar movie-like world where various Earth-like planets exist with their own individual quirks. There are other questions that come up as well. With other planets outside our solar system showing resemblance to our own home planet, could any of these exoplanets have signs of life in them as well? Is this a step closer to finding aliens? Or, can humans find another safe planet to inhabit after Earth? Questions are many and we do not have all the answers, but some are quite thrilled. Speaking on the discovery, Jessie Christiansen, science lead for the archive and a research scientist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech in Pasadena said, “Each one of them is a new world, a brand-new planet. I get excited about every one because we don’t know anything about them”.

NASA does help us understand what it could mean. “Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our Sun. But a new raft of discoveries marks a scientific high point: More than 5,000 planets are now confirmed to exist beyond our solar system,” said NASA. These discoveries open up a larger perspective and an opportunity for deeper observations into space and understanding what the universe beyond our solar system looks like. And NASA has found some very interesting worlds to explore.

“The 5,000-plus planets found so far include small, rocky worlds