[RESOURCE] Exoplanetary Orrery V
http://www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/20/exoplanetary-orrery-v/
An exoplanet is a planet that orbits another star other than the Sun; since 1988, approximately 2000 of them have been confirmed. This post, inspired by Ethan Kruse‘s Kepler Orrery IV, visualises and animates exoplanets, together with their habitable zones. The data come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive and it only includes the confirmed exoplanets with known orbits and temperature. You can find a complete list of all the exoplanets here.
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Another really stellar (heh) read, thank you so much for dedicating the time to write this! :) I happened to design a minimalistic solar system simulator a mere few months; so this may just be all the motivation I need to get back into the code and noodle about with some physics again - thank you!
Thank you, I'm glad it has inspired someone! :D