NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will find thousands of planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Studying the properties of exoplanet worlds will help us understand what planetary systems throughout the Milky Way are like and how planets form and evolve.
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Source: NASA Goddard Center