By the end of 2014 astronomers had confirmed more than 1,000 planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. The first were found only in the early 1990s; since then ground-based surveys and space telescopes such as Kepler and TESS, which watch for the tiny dip in a star's light as a planet passes in front of it, have turned exoplanets from a rarity into a routine discovery. Most stars in our galaxy are now thought to host planets. It took place in 2014.
Before and after
- from 1 January 2014 to 9 December 2017Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017
- 2014Construction of Shanghai Tower
- 20142014 Odesa clashes
- 2014European migrant crisis
- 2014Known exoplanets pass 1,000
- 20142014 becomes the warmest year on record
- from 19 January 2014 to 23 February 20142014 Hrushevskoho Street riots
- 7 February 2014Construction of Fisht Olympic Stadium
- from 12 February 2014 to 1 May 20142014 Venezuelan protests
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The era
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