Exoplanet

[nomadicdemon]

Hey all,
Hey peoplez, well,, haven't been online much but I saw the story on the newsletter and was wondering what an exoplanet was and why it is such as an extrordinary find? I'm sorry, I know it's in the story but I just want to understand it better and I want to know what everyone's personal opinion is about exoplanets......well, thx for all.


Late!

[Darrrius]

An exoplanet is a planet orbiting a star other than our own sun. The first one was a big discovery because it proved for the first time that our solar system is not the only one to have planets orbting a central star.

I am always excited when they find new extra solar planets, and cant wait till they find one where the atmosphere is out of equilibrium, as this would suggest some kind of life process is occuring. But this kind of atmospheric detection is somewhere in the not too distant future.