Keele astrophysicist comments on discovery of new planets

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Posted on 13 January 2012
"We are now facing the idea that planets are all over the place," said astrophysicist John Southworth at the U.K.'s Keele University, who wasn't part of these research projects.

Since 1994, researchers have confirmed the existence of more than 700 planets around various stars, with more than 2,000 additional candidates currently under study by astronomers around the world. Earlier this month, astronomers using the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network announced the discovery of four more massive worlds, each one orbiting a separate star.

"We are now facing the idea that planets are all over the place," said astrophysicist John Southworth at the U.K.'s Keele University, who wasn't part of these research projects.

Full article appears in Wall Street Journal, Discovery News 13.1.12

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