Post by sherlew99 on Mar 25, 2016 14:33:20 GMT -6
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HEC: The Constellations of Exoplanets
The stars with exoplanets are not equally distributed among the 88 astronomical constellations. Exoplanets detections are slightly biased toward the northern hemisphere and the sky area covered by each constellation is not equal. Many fall within the well known 12 zodiac constellations of the ecliptic that are associated with the astrological signs (Figure and Table 1). The night sky is full of stars with exoplanets (Figure and Table 2) but only some of those stars are visible to the naked-eye (Figure and Table 3). The actual EXOPLANETS ARE TOO DIM TO BE VISIBLE in any case, but it is just fun to identify their stars.
HEC: The Constellations of Exoplanets
Last Update: December 8, 2014
The stars with exoplanets are not equally distributed among the 88 astronomical constellations. Exoplanets detections are slightly biased toward the northern hemisphere and the sky area covered by each constellation is not equal. Many fall within the well known 12 zodiac constellations of the ecliptic that are associated with the astrological signs (Figure and Table 1). The night sky is full of stars with exoplanets (Figure and Table 2) but only some of those stars are visible to the naked-eye (Figure and Table 3). The actual EXOPLANETS ARE TOO DIM TO BE VISIBLE in any case, but it is just fun to identify their stars.
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[Note, I changed the link for astrological signs in the excerpt above to astrology.com since the original link no longer goes to a viable page.]
