File:Planet Discovery Neighbourhood in Milky Way Galaxy.jpeg
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English: Image originally from PlanetQuest. Modified with updated stats. 90% of planets with known distances lie within about 2000 light-years from our Sun, as of July 2014. Based on planets listed with distances at The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia http://exoplanet.eu/ on 10 July 2014. 1 parsec = 3.26156 ly |
| Source | http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/images/galaxy-graphic.jpg |
| Author | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| current | 11:57, 10 July 2014 | 1,325 × 1,000 (447 KB) | Astredita | Updated distance from 300ly to 2000ly and replace "most" with a more specific 90%. As of 10 July 2014, the number of planets with known distances is 842. 90% of these are within 585 parsecs or 1908 light-years. So changed the text on the image to say "... |
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