John Carlos Baez on Nostr: If we look at planets whose year is less than 1000 of our days, we see some trends. ...

If we look at planets whose year is less than 1000 of our days, we see some trends.

There are a bunch of 'hot Jupiters' whose year is just 3 days long - that's the cloud at top here.

But there are even more 'peas in a pod' solar systems, which have several planets of roughly equal radius, often between the size of Earth and Neptune. A few of them are shown in different colors here.

These probably require different explanations.

For a great talk on this stuff, try my next post.

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