Kepler Orrery V

All of the Kepler multi-planet systems (1815 planets/planet candidates in 726 systems) from Kepler’s original mission as of the announcement of Kepler’s end of life: October 30, 2018. The systems are shown together at the same scale as our own Solar System (dashed lines). The size of the orbits are all to scale, but the size of the planets are not. For example, Jupiter is actually 11x larger than Earth, but that scale makes Earth-sized planets almost invisible (or Jupiters annoyingly large). The orbits are all synchronized such that Kepler observed a planet transit every time it hits an angle of 0 degrees (the 3 o’clock position on a clock). Planet colors are based on their approximate equilibrium temperatures, as shown in the legend. Data taken from the NASA Exoplanet Archive: Source code to make your own can be found here: The previous versions can be seen here: Kepler Orrery IV by me: