Researchers at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla facility in Chile have discovered 32 new planets outside the solar system which takes the number of "exoplanets" up to a whooping 400!Your probably wondering, what the heck is an exoplanet is. Well, an exoplanet or extrasolar planet, is a planet beyond our solar system that orbits a star other than the sun. They found it using a a 3.6m telescope.
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