UW astronomer Eric Agol’s seven-planet system part of major NASA discovery

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An artist’s illustration of multiple-transiting planet systems. The planets eclipse or transit their host star from the vantage point of the observer.

University of Washington astronomer Eric Agol played a key role in the windfall of 715 new exoplanets announced by NASA Feb. 26. Agol was on a team that found seven of those worlds, all in orbit around the same star, Kepler-90. It’s the first planetary system with seven planets seen to transit, or cross in front of their host star. Read more at UW Today.

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