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		DavidSJ on Oct 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought The planets detected by Kepler will tend to be unusually close to their star due to its detection method. I believe that’s why Sol looks like an outlier in that regard — it’s really that the other systems are the outliers.

lolc on Oct 17, 2018 [–]

Could be. Detecting smaller planets further out is less and less likely.

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