Multiple Choice
As of late 2016, the number of confirmed exoplanets found was:
A) 5, all around stars within 20 light-years of us.
B) 42, all much bigger than Jupiter, but orbiting red dwarf stars.
C) a few hundred, orbiting more than 300 stars.
D) a few thousand, mainly around stars smaller and fainter than our Sun.
E) many thousands, around every star we have closely examined to date.
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