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*Unmanly squeal* March 14, 2012 12:16 am Vitruvius

I cannot express my joy for finding this website in any other manner. It’s full of graphs of Habitable Zones for different stars, and of the orbits of discovered planets in star systems. They even have animated ones!

Makes me wonder, though – what would a political spectrum graph of the HZ members here look like? Like the ones on different chart-your-place sites?

  • Political compass by Robert 2012-03-14 11:48:58
    • The methods used by astronomers to detect exoplanets around nearby stars all have severe limitations. These methods include 1)Transit. ... by ER 2012-03-14 04:40:27
      • I wonder if the detected planets so far have any pattern to their orbital planes relative to the galactic plane? by TB 2012-03-14 07:37:26
        • There is no "up and down" or "back and forth" in space, Only tilted toward or away from us. ... by ER 2012-03-14 14:23:25
          • I was thinking local perspective, as seen through a telescope. To be more precise, any number of extra-solar planetary ... by TB 2012-03-14 16:17:46
            • Its a reasonable question, but the galaxy is very old, almost as old as the universe itself, about 14 Gyr ... by ER 2012-03-14 18:14:19
              • I'd say that's probably a pretty accurate take on it. by TB 2012-03-14 20:04:37
          • No. As you surmise in your last post, the two have absolutely no causal relation to one another. by ER 2012-03-14 13:54:03
            • Hmmmm. by TB 2012-03-14 09:35:26
              • An ellipse tilted relative to our line of sight is still an ellipse (of different apparent shape). So there ... by ER 2012-03-14 14:01:31
                • Our own solar system has no alignment with the galactic plane. by TB 2012-03-14 10:01:13

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