The Exoplanet Explorer

The Exoplanet Explorer is an interesting movement to practise imagined solar systems showing the orbits of all the known exoplanets. An exoplanet is a planet that has been discovered exterior the Sun's solar system. Thousands of exoplanets bring straight off been discovered, to a greater extent than frequently than non alongside NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

The Exoplanet Explorer uses information from NASA to practise imagined views of the 3 thou exoplanets discovered thence far. These views are based on the information known close the visualized planet. Alongside this imagined thought of the planet you lot tin thought information close the planet, such equally its temperature, size as well as the length of its orbit approximately its sun. I bring no thought how accurate these exoplanet maps are simply I assume they are generated based on this information.


You tin encounter a to a greater extent than accurate thought of the exoplanets on the Exoplanets Viewer. The Exoplanets Viewer is a WebGL visualization (with a trivial help from Unity) of the Universe, showing the place of all the exoplanets discovered thence far. The Exoplanets Viewer shows the pose of all the known exoplanets equally seen from your electrical flow place as well as time.

The color of an exoplanet on the map represents its temperature. The light-green exoplanets are those situated inwards the habitable or 'Goldilocks' zone. The hottest planets are colored blood-red spell H2O ice worlds are colored blue. If you lot are looking for a novel habitation as well as thence you lot desire to select 1 on 1 of the light-green planets.