Kepler Orrery

Kepler team has another excellent visualization of their discoveries.
An orrery of the currently known multi-planet systems, as a youtube animation.

Dan Fabrycky put this up

h/t Marketing for Scientists

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So... The number of planets decreases down the page; diameter of planet is shown as diameter of dot, diameter rank # is shown as (red,yellow,green,cyan,blue)... can anyone use their super-vision to tell me whether there are five or six planets in the top-left system?

There are 6 planets in this system, all transiting. This is the amazing Kepler-11 system

By Tim Lister (not verified) on 03 Jun 2011 #permalink