My god, it's full of keplers

My god, it's full of keplers

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jmorgan

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Tuesday 3rd November 2015
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Eric Mc

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Tuesday 3rd November 2015
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Hmmm - the planets may exist but what they look like is rather speculative at the moment.

jmorgan

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Wednesday 4th November 2015
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You are right, they might all be pink....

Universy Today said:
Here’s a great new poster showing over 500 extrasolar planets (about one quarter of the total) that have been discovered since 1988. This visualization, created by graphic artist and writer Martin Vargic from Slovakia, is based on the estimated radius and temperature of the planets, however other factors, such as density, age or stellar metallicity were also taken into consideration. All the various known classes of exoplanets are shown on the graphic, such as super-Earths, hot Jupiters, hot Neptunes, water worlds, gas dwarfs or superdense diamond planets.
I appreciate that, but it is the scale that I found interesting, and they have tried an intelligent guess grading the planets to where they are etc. Did you see the Kepler orrery?