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The Kepler Orrery: All Orbits
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered 170 planetary systems
containing between two and six transiting planets.
The animation below shows all the multiple-planet systems discovered by Kepler as of 2/2/2011.
Orbits go through the entire mission (3.5 years).
Hot colors to cool colors (red to yellow to green to cyan to blue to gray)
are big planets to smaller planets, relative to the other planets in the system.
Click on the above image to play 30 Mb animation in new tab/window,
or play 122 Mb animation in new tab/window
or YouTube version with music.
Credit: Daniel Fabrycky