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Do any of the stars you can see have planets around them?
Yes. To date scientists have discovered well over a thousand planets orbiting other stars. It is believe that a large portion of the stars in the night sky have planets.
Are there any planets out of our solar system that orbit around stars?
Yes. As of August 2015 scientists have discovered nearly 2,000 planets orbiting other stars.
Are you moving around the sun or it is the sun that moves around the planets?
The planets are considered moving around the sun, even though the sun moves too (in tiny circles opposite the planets' motions). The planets are circling the sun. The sun (dragging the planets along with it) is circling our galaxy's center. Our galaxy (dragging the sun, the planets, and all the other stars) is moving through the universe as well.
Why can scientists see planets in the solar system but nowhere else in the universe?
Scientists (astronomers) can and have seen planets going round stars other than our own Sun.See related link below.
What planets are most massive than earth?
In our solar system, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are more massive. There are over 300 extra-solar planets known to be circling other stars; in most cases, only very massive planets can be detected at such ranges. It is likely that other smaller planets also exist, but we have no indication of that so far.
How do scientists know that planets are closer to earth than the stars?
not a clue
What are three stars that have been found to have extrasolar planets?
You can find the names of some 260 different stars with planets circling them here: http://exoplanet.eu/
Is there new planet discovered in 2010?
Currently scientists are finding many new planets every year orbiting other stars.
Why do stars wobble?
Stars wobble due to the gravitational influence of the planets orbiting them. As planets orbit their stars, their gravitational pull causes the stars to move slightly in response. Scientists can detect this wobble in a star's position, which provides information about the planets orbiting it.
Are new stars and planets being formed or just new stars?
Both new planets and stars are being formed. Scientists are actually watching the formation of planets and keeping track of which ones would be able to support life.
Our unique solar system how it got here?
There is probably nothing unique about our solar system. Scientists once thought that planets might be rare, but we're finding that planets appear to be as common as dirt; we know of over 400 "exoplanets" circling other stars. So far, our technology isn't good enough to locate a planet as small as Earth, but with big planets as common as they are, there's no reason to think that "ordinary" worlds will be any more rare.
Are there other stars that have planets apart from the sun?
Scientists used to wonder; are planets rare, or are they common? Arguments went both ways. But over the past 10 years or so, we have discovered over 300 planets orbiting other stars. With the rapid improvement in space-based telescopes and better image processing software, it begins to look like planets, and planetary systems, may be the norm; that single stars without planets may be the unusual case.
