So far, the Kepler space telescope has found 2299 high-quality (multiple transits) candidate planets. In reality, they’re orbiting 1770 stars, but Alex Parker thought it’d be interesting to show them all orbiting a single star. So here, plotted to a common scale, they are (direct link):
H/T: toomanytribbles
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