Planetary System Valentine

An illustration of an exoplanet Valentine.
February 14, 2017
CreditNASA-JPL/Richard Barkus
Language
  • english

The Kepler-11 system is made up of six planets tightly-packed together. If these exoplanets from light-years away were dropped into our solar system, all six would fit between Venus and the sun. Talk about a close family.