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All 786 Known Planets
ALL 786 KNOWN PLANETS (AS OF JUNE 2012) TO SCALE (SOME PLANET SIZES ESTIMATED BASED ON MASS) THIS 1S OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. THE REST OF THESE ORBIT OTHER STARS AND WERE ONLY DISCOVERED RECENTLY MOST OF THEM ARE HUGE BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE KIND WE LEARNED TO DETECT FIRST, BUT NOW WE'RE FINDING TFIAT 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 EXCITNG TIME.
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 s...
mall 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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http://xkcd.com/1071/Category
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