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Image: Planet Discovery Neighbourhood in Milky Way Galaxy

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Description: 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
Title: Planet Discovery Neighbourhood in Milky Way Galaxy
Credit: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/images/galaxy-graphic.jpg
Author: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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