01-07-2015, 02:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2015, 08:44 PM by dreamliner.)
The discovery of exoplanets is not exactly/fully a "confirmation", but nevertheless, can be regarded as so, tangentially. Because some skeptics were arguing -before 1990s/2000s-against "extraterrestrials" or "ufo" phenomenon, by using the absence of exoplanets discovered. At the time of Ra contacts, there was no any exoplanet discovered ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of...ds_Bar.png ) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_%28...140226.png ). In time, especially after 1995, and after Kepler telescope in 2009, the exoplanet discoveries gained momentum. The number of exoplanets discovered, increased to more than 1800, as of the end of 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of...exoplanets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_po...exoplanets
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/n...Kwu-CvF-Ag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of...exoplanets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_po...exoplanets
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/n...Kwu-CvF-Ag