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Detailed explanation-1: -A team led by 22-year-old Anne Dattilo, an undergraduate student at the University of Texas, Austin, discovered two planets, officially named K2-293b and K2-294b. The planets orbit stars more than 1,200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Aquarius.

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA’s Webb telescope has discovered an exoplanet, which is any planet that is outside of our solar system, for the first time, the agency announced Wednesday. The planet, called LHS 475 b, is nearly the same size as Earth, having 99% of our planet’s diameter, scientists said.

Detailed explanation-3: -The planets are called Kepler-138 c and Kepler-138 d, named after NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, which identified thousands of exoplanets and revolutionized our grasp of what lies beyond our solar system, in the deep cosmos.

Detailed explanation-4: -When Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, was discovered in 1781, it expanded the known limits of our solar system. It was also the first planet to be discovered using a telescope, as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all bright enough to be easily visible to the naked eye.