All 786 Known Planets

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There are lots of planets orbiting other stars, most of them were only discovered recently. Most of them are huge because those are the kind we learned to detect first, but now we're finding that small ones are actually more common. We know nothing about what's on any of them. With better telescopes, that would change. This is an exciting time.
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Added: 10 months ago

Rank: 44 of 550 in Science

Tags: space, planets

Source: http://xkcd.com/1071/

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