Distribution of Discovered Exoplanet Orbits (VIDEO)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

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Small exoplanets are Mercury sized, large ones are Jupiter sized. The colors indicate those planets' temperatures; blue indicates roughly Earth's temperature; white shows temperatures similar to the surface of Venus; and red shows lava like temperatures.

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John H. Livingston

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