There are currently over a thousand known planets, most of them discovered recently; I would guess that currently, dozens of planets, perhaps over a hundred planets, are discovered every year.
yes there is many stars and they can be discovered
As of my last update, astronomers have not discovered a new planet in our solar system. However, new exoplanets outside our solar system are routinely being discovered using various observational techniques.
It isn't, really; it's just that the "dwarf planet" classification is pretty new, having been defined in 2006. However, a "dwarf planet" must be massive enough that it is crushed into a spherical shape by its own gravity, and must orbit a star rather than another planet. But it has NOT "cleared its orbit" of other objects; if that criterion were true, then it would be a "planet". Any new bodies matching that description are likely to be in the Kuiper Belt, which is quite distant from Earth. It's likely that we'll need a new generation of orbital telescopes to discover them.
As of now, there is no confirmed discovery of a new planet in our solar system. However, researchers continue to search for potential undiscovered planets beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt and beyond.
There is a bit of confusion here. Kepler is not the name of a planet but of a space telescope used to discover planets in other solar systems. Planets discovered with this telescope are given designations such as Kepler-22b. This telescope has been used to discovered hundreds of planets.
I want to discover a previously unknown planet with my new telescope.
yes there is many stars and they can be discovered
Uranus.
Pluto, which now really isn't new.
As of my last update, astronomers have not discovered a new planet in our solar system. However, new exoplanets outside our solar system are routinely being discovered using various observational techniques.
jupiter had it's rings found by nassa
It isn't, really; it's just that the "dwarf planet" classification is pretty new, having been defined in 2006. However, a "dwarf planet" must be massive enough that it is crushed into a spherical shape by its own gravity, and must orbit a star rather than another planet. But it has NOT "cleared its orbit" of other objects; if that criterion were true, then it would be a "planet". Any new bodies matching that description are likely to be in the Kuiper Belt, which is quite distant from Earth. It's likely that we'll need a new generation of orbital telescopes to discover them.
As of now, there is no confirmed discovery of a new planet in our solar system. However, researchers continue to search for potential undiscovered planets beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt and beyond.
because technically Columbus didn't really "discover" the new world, he only recorded it. the Amerindians such as the Incas, Aztecs, tainos, kalinagos etc really discovered the new world. mainly because they migrated to the western hemisphere centuries before Columbus voyages; during the time of the ice age over the Bering Strait which is now currently the Antarctic ocean. So giving recognition to a man that didn't really discover would be unfair to the civilizations that actually did discover the new world.
New planets are more or less constantly being discovered outside the Solar system. There are almost certainly no unknown planets still lurking within the Solar system, though.
Don't think so. Some scientists think that but others thought it was just a really big meteorite.
William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, using a homemade telescope in the back garden of his house in Bath (England). It was also the first discovery of a planet made using a telescope. -------------------- a telescope