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Exoplanets

In Our Time

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The Disadvantages of Preconceived Ideas

When it was first announced there was a lot of skepticism. People had for many years thought solar systems would look much like our own. To find a Jupiter-mass object in a period of four days - that's four days, remember Mercury has a period of 88 days and Jupiter a period of 12 years -- we didn't expect it. Other solar systems are the most easy solar systems to detect. Do not look like our solar system. That's what I found from reading for this programme,. Most extraordinary because we think if we find another solar system, it's near enough like our own solar system, they're all over the place. There's no consistency that it's wonderful.

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