Extrasolar planets

With the help of scientific models and up-to-date information, this poster attempts to artistically visualize together over 1100 of known exoplanets of all the different types we have discovered so far, arranged by the amount of heat they receive from their stars, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like.

Imagine if it rained rocks or pebbles on Earth. That's how it can be on CoRot 7b, an extrasolar planet.

Exoplanets, also called as "extrasolar planets" are the planets that exist outside our solar system that orbit stars other than our sun.

Here's a great new poster showing over 500 extrasolar planets (about one quarter of the total) that have been discovered since 1988. This visualization, created by graphic artist and writer Martin Vargic from Slovakia, is based on the estimated radius and temperature of the planets, however other factors, such as density, age or stellar metallicity were also taken into consideration. All the various known classes of exoplanets are shown on the graphic, such as super-Earths, hot Jupiters, hot…

TRAPPIST - 1c, Guillem H. Pongiluppi

Researchers have found Jupiter-scale gas giants orbiting binary stars and estimate that Earth-like planets orbiting binary stars could be as numerous as rocky planets orbiting single-star systems.