Astronomer and Associate Curator of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History Dr. Ruth Angus joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about exoplanets. What is the most extreme exoplanet? Have we discovered any habitable planets yet? How are the waves on Miller’s planet (Interstellar) so big? Answers to these questions and many more await on Exoplanet Support.
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\n\nI'm an astronomer and an associate curator
\n\nat the American Museum of Natural History.
\n\nLet's answer some questions from the internet.
\n\nScientists believe there is a super-Earth
\n\nbut the way things are going around here,
\n\neven a slightly above-average Earth would be welcome.
\n\nfor what is actually a slightly pedestrian thing,
\n\nthat is a little bit more massive than the Earth.
\n\nDo we have a super-Earth beyond Neptune?
\n\na potential ninth planet in our solar system.
\n\nwe think that it might be tugging on other objects out there
\n\nright at the edge of the…
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