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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Kepler has discovered 11 new "solar systems" with 26 confirmed planets among them. They:
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." -D.H. Lawrence
and we're back, and I'm late, more Kepler stuff hundreds of new multi-planet system (candidates) from Kepler! Liveblogging:
Dave Charbonneau: why transits are cool Kicking off afternoon session is Josh Winn on transit uses and abuses. Then Gaspar Bakos on ground based transits.

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