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Tons of planets can support life. Kepler Orrery IV

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Channel: Ethan Kruse
Categories: Astronomy   |   Physics   |   Science  
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All of the Kepler multi-planet systems (1705 planets in 685 systems as of 24 November 2015) on the same scale as the Solar System (the dashed lines). The size of the orbits are all to scale, but the size of the planets are not. For example, Jupiter is actually 11x larger than Earth, but that scale makes Earth-size planets almost invisible (or Jupiters annoyingly large). The orbits are all synchronized such that Kepler observed a planet transit every time it hits an angle of 0 degrees (the 3 o'clock position on a clock).

Planet colors are based on their approximate equilibrium temperatures, as shown in the legend.

Source code to make your own can be found here: https://github.com/ethankruse/kepler_orrery

The previous version (Kepler Orrery III by Dan Fabrycky) can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZVvYm6KKM

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