Star system has record eight exoplanets

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42356305

Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.
It's the largest number of worlds ever discovered in a planetary system outside our own.
The star known as Kepler-90, is just a bit hotter and larger than the Sun; astronomers already knew of seven planets around it.
The newly discovered world is small enough to be rocky, according to scientists.

 

[Linguofreak]

Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.

[Obligatory contrarianism]
9 != 8

Pluto forever!
[/obligatory contrarianism]

More seriously, we're probably not within a century of being able to detect Pluto-mass KBOs around other stars, so it doesn't count in this context whether we count it as a planet locally or not.

 

[Notebook]

Some 3,500 exoplanets - worlds circling other stars - have been documented in recent decades.

Amazing. guessed it was only in the hundreds.

N.

 

[Ravenous]

According to this catalogue, 3727 at the moment (may not all be confirmed though?):

http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/