orbital path of transiting exoplanet TIC 241249530 b As of the day of this recording, Aug 8, 2024, more than 5600 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting more than 4000 alien stars. Within these systems we are regularly finding things our experiences with our own solar system never prepared us for. From tidally locked worlds, to hot jupiters, our universe is more creative than any of our theories predicted, and today, researchers work to sort just how each of these wild worlds can come to exist. Consider hot jupiters. So far we’ve found 300-500 worlds with a Jupiter-like size in an orbit...