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Trillions Of 'Exoplanets' May Exist Beyond Our Solar System

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Dr. Kent Montgomery, director of the Texas A&M University-Commerce Planetarium, discusses exoplanets, any planets that exist outside of our solar system.  A recent Irish Times article with astronomer Dr. Niall Smith of the Cork Institute says there may be trillions of exoplanets in the universe. Dr. Smith and his colleagues have developed a method for "detwinkling" starlights, that allows powerful telescopes to see distant stars and any planets that may exist in orbit around them more clearly.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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