How Many Planets Are Really Out There?
From eight planets to possibly trillions, the real question isn’t how many planets are there—it’s how many you’re ready to wrap your brain around!
For most of human history, the question “how many planets are there?” seemed like a no-brainer. Look up at the sky, and you could spot five bright dots, each moving against the backdrop of fixed stars. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—those were the planets. Simple, right? But that simplicity wasn’t because ancient civilizations had figured everything out. It was more like they’d walked into a dark room, found a flashlight, and decided the small circle of light it illuminated was the entire universe. What they didn’t know—what they couldn’t know—was that their flashlight was just skimming the surface of something far bigger and more complex.
Here’s the thing: the ancients didn’t even think Earth was a planet. To them, the Earth was special, the centerpiece of everything. The Sun, the Moon, and those five wandering dots were all thought to revolve around us, making Earth the cosmic throne of existence. This was the geocentric model, and it dominated human thought for well over a thousand years. Honestly, it’s not hard to see why they believed it. After all, when you look up at the sky, everything does seem to be moving around you. It’s like sitting in a parked car and watching another car roll by—you feel like you’re the one moving, even though you’re not. That illusion of motion was enough to convince everyone that Earth was the center of it all.
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Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com ,Elon Musk/SpaceX/ Flickr
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00:00 Intro
1:40 What means " planet"
6:38 The missing planet between Mars and Jupiter
7:05 Ceres
9:10 The Hypothetical Planet X
9:40 Pluto - Clyde Tombaugh
12:30 Dwarf Planets And Kuiper Belt
14:48 Eris And Dysnomia
21:50 The Planet 9
24:10 Why we haven't found Planet X yet?
25:30 Beyond the Kuiper Belt: The Oort Cloud
29:30 Hot Jupiter
30:05 Other Types of Planets
32:10 A Rogue Planet
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