NASA to host a major press conference on a discovery beyond our solar system

Wow, guys! Something big is happening!

On February 22th at 1 pm EST, NASA is going to hold a news conference to announce a major finding relating to planets outside the Solar System.

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The event will be taking place in Washington DC for media only, but you can watch it live on NASA TV, which we’ve embedded for you below.

NASA is going to reveal the information about exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars other than our sun. Exoplanets are the major hope for life elsewhere in the universe, since many have been found that resemble our own Earth and could have the building blocks of life.

Several experts will take part in the conference:

– Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington

– Michael Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium

– Sean Carey, manager of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, California

– Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore

– Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Media and the public also may ask questions during the conference on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.

If you still have any questions you can ask our astronomy tutors. Feel free to contact us if you like to learn about the secrets of galaxies, solar systems, planets, and stars.

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