Universe Today
If you've ever wanted to know what 3,538 exoplanets look like spinning around their stars, here you go!
This is the third and latest installment of the mesmerizing Kepler Orrery videos by Daniel Fabrycky from the Kepler science team. It shows the relative sizes of the orbits and planets in the multi-transiting planetary systems discovered by Kepler up to November 2013 (according to
the Kepler site
, 3,538 candidates so far.) According to Daniel "the colors simply go by order from the star (the most colorful is the 7-planet system
KOI-351
). The terrestrial planets of the Solar System are shown in gray."
Not that our Solar System is
boring
, of course, but well, ya know... there
are
an
awful lot of planets out there.
Check out Daniel's previous version
here
.