What’s An Exoplanet?

The question is, “What’s an exoplanet?”

An exoplanet is the name given, to planets that orbit stars other than the sun that are outside of the solar system.

Thousands of exoplanets that have been discovered by the Kepler space telescope over many years. They come in many sizes with different surfaces, for example, icy or rocky, etc.

With 500 solar systems already found and new ones being discovered yearly, many more exoplanets will exist.

I read an article that said we’d been searching for habited planets for four years.

So, isn’t it possible that one will be found in the future?

With so many exoplanets in the solar system, I don’t believe that not one of them isn’t habited.

We rely too much on visual evidence, which I must point out does not mean that life doesn’t exist because we’re unable to see it with the Kepler space telescope...

Also, just because a planet’s surface may not show life, that doesn’t mean that life doesn’t exist below the surface.

Even on Earth, lifeforms can exist under extreme circumstances, for example, at the bottom of the deepest oceans where man cannot dive and even in extreme cold conditions contained in ice, where microscopic life awakens once defrosted to be seen quite clearly under a microscope.

If life can thrive in extreme conditions than life can exist anywhere and not just on Earth.

I rest my case…

But hey, I’m no scientist.

What do you think? 

Author: Charmain Ingleton

www.thewalkways.co.uk