Kepler Orrery III

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Saw this last night on Horizon. Visual depiction of the relative sizes of the orbits and planets in the multi-transiting planetary systems discovered by Kepler up to Nov. 2013. The colors simply go by order from the star (the most colorful is the 7-planet system KOI-351). The terrestrial planets of the Solar System are shown in gray in the top left hand corner. Apparently so far our own Solar System appears to be abit of an anomaly- all down to Jupiter and Saturn evidently. Timothy Francis Leary would have been proud!

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