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Updated version: www.flickr.com/photos/astroguy/6799798449/in/photostream

Same as: www.flickr.com/photos/astroguy/5548755082/ except now, by request, with Saturated Colours.

This picture shows every Kepler planetary candidate host star with its transiting companion in silhouette. The sizes of the stars and transiting companions are properly scaled. The colours of the stars are meant to represent how the eye would see the star outside of the Earths atmosphere. Stars have been properly limb darkened and the companions have been offset relative to one another to match the modeled impact parameter. Some stars will even show more than one planet!

The largest star is 6.1 times larger that the Sun and the smallest stars are estimated to be only 0.3 times the radius of the Sun. The Sun is shown below the top row on the right by itself with the Earth and Jupiter in transit

Don't forget to check out the high-resolution version, which is necessary to see some of the smallest planetary candidates. High Resolution: farm6.staticflickr.com/5310/5552363328_6fdd57c0d1_o.jpg

I've also added a thumbnail version of the Sun-Earth-Jupiter here: www.flickr.com/photos/astroguy/5587336037/

Follow Kepler on Facebook: www.facebook.com/NASAsKeplerMission

Follow Kepler on Twitter at @NASAKepler- twitter.com/nasakepler

For more information on star-colours, please check out: www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor/
Date Taken on 22 March 2011, 22:52
Source Kepler Transiting Planet Candidates (Saturated Colours)
Author Jason Rowe from Mountain View, U.S.A.
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kepler, planets, extrasolar, exoplanet, nasa
Camera location37° 25′ 04.53″ N, 122° 03′ 20.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Astro Guy at https://flickr.com/photos/97601535@N00/5552363328. It was reviewed on 17 July 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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