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Daily Archive June 19th, 2009

Putting Exoplanets into Perspective

With the first science data downlink from the Kepler Mission supposed to be happening just these days, I thought I’d take a minute to put all the apparently uninteresting things we know about exoplanets into perspective. According to The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, we are currently aware of 353 exoplanets and most of them are lonely […]