Although we can’t easily find out much about many of the discovered exoplanets, there are some, mostly orbiting nearby stars, that we already know quite a bit about. We are realising that what we knew about planets from just our own Solar System has barely scratched the surface. To round up this week, the following sections take a look at some of the most exciting exoplanets.
OpenLearn - An introduction to exoplanets
Except for third party materials and otherwise, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence, full copyright detail can be found in the acknowledgements section. Please see full copyright statement for details.