Planets around other stars
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First thing's first planets that orbit other stars are called Extrasolar planets.Secondly I apologize for the lack of italics, links, pictures, etc... heres a link with great pictures and more info
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The list of known extrasolar planets last time I checked included about 200 planets. There are several classifications of extrasolar planets, depending on their size and proximity to the parents star or star-like object. Hot Jupiters are large gaseous planets similar to Jupiter (surprise) orbiting where Venus would be in our own solar system or in some cases even closer. Sadly, as interesting as large gas balls that have crushing pressures and lead melting temperatures, the areas around yellow medium stars like our own we want to look at, an area called the Habitable Zone.
