Astronomers have detected hundreds of planets around other stars. This map shows the location of “nearby” extra-solar planets. Someday we may find small, rocky worlds like those of our own inner solar system. What might they be like? Watery Earth, scorched Venus, or desert Mars?
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WEB13805-2014
Source:
NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley)
