Week 12, 2022: NASA Confirms Existence of 5,000 Exoplanets!
Statistics of exoplanet discoveries as of (2022-Mar-21)
As of March 21, 2022, there are now 5,005 confirmed exoplanets discovered across 3,759 star systems, with 8,738 more well on the way, awaiting confirmation on follow-up observations! The illustration above (by NASA/Caltech) shows the population of all discovered planets by size and composition. In addition, different renditions of 117 star systems are now available as addons for Celestia
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Newest Addons of the Week
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Mar 20 - 26, 2022) by category
Asteroids & NEOs
66391 Moshup and its moon, Squannit
- 66391 Moshup by N3cronium
Exoplanets
HD 154088 b
- DP Leonis by Edasich
- Gliese 876 by John van Vliet
- HD 80606 by trappistplanets
- HD 154088 by Vision
- OGLE-2005-BLG-390L by SevenSpheres
- YZ Ceti by SevenSpheres
Fictional
The planets of 107 Piscium
ArcBuilder Universe
- ABU: 18 Scorpii by jmdollan
- ABU: 61 Virginis by jmdollan
- ABU: 107 Piscium by jmdollan
- ABU: Sigma Draconis by jmdollan
- ABU: Van Maanen's Star by jmdollan
Galaxies
The Milky Way viewed from the outside
Hypothetical & Disproven
The disproven planets of Kepler-70
- Kepler-70 by SpaceStalker
- PSR B1828-11 by Edasich
- Tyche by Edasich
Spacecraft
Mir during the last Shuttle-Mir mission, STS-91, in June 1998
- AMSAT-Oscar 7 by toutatis
- Asterix by toutatis
- CALIPSO by toutatis
- CloudSat by toutatis
- CYGNSS by DaveBowman2001
- Double Star 1 and 2 by toutatis
- Mir by DaveBowman2001, Endeavor35, linuxman, gironde, and bh
Conceptual
- X-20 by ScyBladeghost and Adirondack
Updates
Stars
The massive white dwarf star known as WD 1832+089
- WD 1832+089 by SpaceStalker
Scripts
- Cassini Mission by jromer
Other news: What's new in Celestia 1.5.5