- Jun 1, 2020
- 3,852
- 2,548
- 20,560
Astronomers have reached 7500 in the number of exoplanet discoveries. This is from exoplanet.eu, which, admittedly, takes in almost all bodies orbiting a star. Thus objects 60x, or more, the size of Jupiter are admitted, unlike NASA which doesn't include very large bodies.
Here's a summary:
This one shows all those in the optimistic HZ by stellar type. Given by star type, this shows the warm ones (by distance from their star) (orange) to the very cold ones (violet) regions of their HZ.
Here are those exoplanets that are about the size of Earth in their respective HZ:
Here's a summary:
This one shows all those in the optimistic HZ by stellar type. Given by star type, this shows the warm ones (by distance from their star) (orange) to the very cold ones (violet) regions of their HZ.
Here are those exoplanets that are about the size of Earth in their respective HZ:
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