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English: This artist's illustration gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets, their orbits, and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations. A six-year search that surveyed millions of stars using the microlensing technique concluded that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception. The average number of planets per star is greater than one. This means that it's likely there are at least of 1,500 planets within just 50 light-years of Earth. |
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| Source | http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/07/image/a/ |
| Author | NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser (ESO) |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |
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| current | 11:14, 4 February 2012 | | 3,621 × 2,392 (10.74 MB) | LX | Full resolution version without border and text |
| 12:30, 30 January 2012 |  | 3,000 × 2,400 (1.82 MB) | Dipankan001 |
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