Orrery of Kepler’s Exoplanets

by Nancy Atkinson on February 22, 2011

Here’s a terrific visualization of all the multiple-planet systems discovered by the Kepler spacecraft as of February 2, 2011. The planets’ orbits go through the entire 3.5 year mission. The different colors represent different sized planets — “hot” colors are the big planets, cooler colors are the smaller ones, relative to the other planets in the system.

And the creator (dfabrycky ) also put together another visualization of just the small systems, too:



  • HeadAroundU

    Lol, great video with perfectly fitting music.

    there is one funny looking system top left in the 2nd video.

  • Manu

    This is so cool! =)

  • Navneeth

    If size is being differentiated with colour, why the unnatural (visual) size, then?

  • http://home.comcast.net/~jacobsdale/Myfishingbuddy.pps Aqua

    Now that’s ‘trick’! The music a kick!I like!

  • Astrofiend

    Well played sir.

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