Polar Plots
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The following interactive plot gives a new way of looking at the population of exoplanets that we know of in the nearby solar neighbourhood. Indeed, in this plot, our Sun is at the origin and each planet is distributed radially depending on its distance to our Sun (we show the 10, 100, 1000 and 10000pc concentric circles), and azimuthally depending on its orientation in the sky (based on their right ascension RA).
The systems located on the outermost circle are those that have no distances defined in the exoplanet.eu database.
When hovering over the planets, one can see their names. By clicking on them, one can access their webpages listing their known properties (star+planet).
The planets can be added or removed from the plots based on their radii by ticking the boxes that follow:
R⊕ is the Earth radius.