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what's up for January there's more to

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the Stars than meets the eye some of

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these stars have planets orbiting them

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I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California the first planets discovered

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orbiting other stars other than our Sun

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were discovered in 1995 you won't be

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able to actually see the planets but

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what you can do is see the stars that

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have planets around them the

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professional astronomers don't actually

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see the planets either they just see the

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effect of the planets orbiting the stars

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they're looking at one of these stars

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has been getting a lot of press lately

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and its name is 55 Cancri kankri sounds

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like kind of a funny word but it's it's

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the way stars are named in the

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constellation of cancer the

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constellation cancer isn't a

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super-bright constellation in fact it's

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it's sort of dim you'll certainly be

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able to see 55 Cancri easier with a

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telescope but even with the unaided eye

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from a darker location you should be

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able to pick out the star all the stars

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we see in the night sky are all part of

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our own Milky Way galaxy so this is just

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one of our neighbor stars there's three

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other stars that you can see in the

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night sky that all have a planet

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orbiting it these stars can be found in

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the constellations Ursa Major which is

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also called the Big Dipper Pegasus and