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Keep in mind that this isn't true for every system they've detected, it's just more likely than not given current examples - 909 planets in 355 systems accordin
by bpicolo 8y ago
Keep in mind that this isn't true for every system they've detected, it's just more likely than not given current examples - 909 planets in 355 systems according to the abstract: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9ff6/meta http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9ff6/m...
There's plenty of differences from our own solar system out there that also don't fit that pattern. Gas Dwarfs are a planetary type that we don't have in our own solar system, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_dwarf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_dwarf