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00:00I think I messed up. I thought our solar system had all the planets. Turns out I was wrong.
00:07Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system.
00:11Imagine countless worlds beyond our own waiting to be discovered.
00:16But how do we find these alien worlds? It's not like we can just hop in a spaceship and fly there.
00:21We use some pretty clever tricks. One method is the transit method.
00:26When a planet passes in front of its star, it causes a tiny dip in the star's light,
00:31like a cosmic game of peekaboo. Another way is by detecting the star's wobble.
00:35A planet's gravity tugs on its star, making it wobble just a bit.
00:40And we catch that wobble with our telescopes. Thanks to these methods, we've discovered over
00:454,000 exoplanets so far. Who knows what other mysteries await us in the vast expanse of space?
00:51Stay curious, space explorers. The universe is full of wonders.