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The current planets being discovered are called "Exoplanets" or "Extrasolar Planets" which means they are planets found outside of our solar system. New ones are constantly being discovered. We are currently getting closer to discovering one within the habitable zone of another star.
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What is the latest discovered?
New planets are discovered every few days.
Who is ptolemety?
Ptolemey is a scientist that studied the planets and he discovered new planets in place.
What are the newest discovered planets after Pluto and are not dwarf planets?
Some of the newly discovered planets beyond Pluto include Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. These are classified as dwarf planets due to their size and orbit characteristics. There have been no new planets discovered in our solar system beyond Pluto that are not classified as dwarf planets.
What is the new planet in the milky way galaxy called?
There are no known new planets. However, planets that are new for us, i.e. that were not previously known, are discovered, at a rate of several hundred planets a year. In other words, there is no "the" new planet.
How scientist discovered the new planet?
Doppler spectroscopy is one method ; below are several links to information regarding how new planets are discovered or inferred .
Did Galileo find any other planets?
No. He discovered great moons, which, had they not been orbiting planets might have been considered planets themselves, but the first new planet since antiquity was Uranus, discovered by Sir William Herschel.
Why are the new planets called Kepler?
The new planets are named after the Kepler Space Telescope, which was a NASA mission that searched for exoplanets using the transit method. The telescope discovered thousands of exoplanets during its mission.
Are the new planets Kepler-62f and Kepler-62e or Ceres and Eris?
Ceres and Eris are not planets; they are classified as dwarf planets. Eris was discovered in our solar system recently and not by the Kepler mission. Ceres is not "new" either; it was discovered the first day of the 19th. Century. I didn't check the specific "Kepler-" codes, but that looks like planets discovered by the Kepler mission to be orbiting around other stars.
What are the names of the 2 new planets?
They are categorized as "dwarf planets" now, leaving only 8 regular planets in our solar system. The names of all the dwarf planets are:CeresPlutoHaumeaMakemakeEris
Are there any new discovered and named planets our solar system?
There were two new planets discovered in our solar system. One is called pilosmith and I forgot the other one. However, they are smaller than Pluto so I don't think the astronomers officially count them as planets. Yea and the other ones name is Typhoon
How many planets are there including the new one discovered?
As of now, there are 8 recognized planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. No new planets have been discovered recently.
How many extrasolar planets are there in this this universe?
As of now, there are over 4,000 confirmed extrasolar planets, also known as exoplanets, in our universe. This number is constantly growing as new planets are discovered through various astronomical techniques.
