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How many planets are outside our Solar System?
 
14 November 2006

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Sun and other planets
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Artist's impression of exoplanets around other stars

Credits: ESA 2003. Illustration by AOES Medialab
 
  Hot Jupiters
 
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Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz


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  Jupiter analogues
 
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A planetary system that looks similar to our own
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This illustration shows a newly discovered Jupiter-like planet and its hypothetical moon (the blue orb) circling the star 55 Cancri. A previously known large planet is just to the left of the star and a hypothetical Earth-like planet to the right of the star.

Credits: ESA/Lynette Cook
 
 
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