2011 will be remembered as the year that put exoplanets on everybody ’s starmaps . Though we ’d find out planet beyond our solar system before , this year astronomer put up more evidence than ever that our universe is packed with exoplanets – some of which might be very like our own rocky , waterlogged world . Here are ten images I created of the yr ’s most incredible exoplanet discoveries .
Admittedly this is a very immanent list . What I call up is an extraordinary exoplanet is one that would provide an extraordinary sight to a future visitor . And , of course , what might count totally cool and what is most interesting scientifically may be two different things . mirthfully , the two criteria are far from being mutually exclusive .
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1 . GJ 3634b is a red - red-hot super - Earth orb perilously near its cerise gnome wiz .
2 . Gleise 370b is a A-one - Earth orbiting just on the inner edge of the Goldilocks geographical zone surrounding its orange dwarf mavin .
3 . HAT - P-32b is a violent - hot planet that is less monolithic than Jupiter while still being twice as big , making it the fluffiest satellite bang .
4 . rose hip 7853b may be a brown nanus . It revolve a red-hot blue star 18 time the distance Pluto revolve the sunshine .
5 . Kepler 10b was the first confirmed rocky planet to be strike . Only half again larger than the Earth , it orbits its star so closely that it ’s raging enough on the surface to melt iron .
6 . Kepler 16b was the first planet to be find out orbiting a binary star .
7 . Kepler 21b , another near - Earth - sized major planet , has a aerofoil inflame to a blaze out 3000 degrees F ( 1648 C ) .
8 . Kepler 22b is a super - Earth that lie down snugly within its star ’s Goldilocks zone , do smooth piddle on its open a tangible possibility .
9 . PSR J1719 - 1438b is a satellite orbiting near a pulsar . One model has the carbon - plentiful world made for the most part of adamant .
10 . WASP 43b is a super - Jove orb so close to its star that tidal force are pluck it apart .
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