Alien landscape and planets. Artwork of the view from a moon of a gas giant extrasolar planet. Such planets are detected by a variety of methods. Exop

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Alien landscape and planets. Artwork of the view from a moon of a gas giant extrasolar planet. Such planets are detected by a variety of methods. Exoplanets so far discovered range from very large gas giant planets to rocky planets of various sizes, some thought to be like Earth. Here, the parent star is close by at centre, with another moon or planet transiting across its face. A gas giant planet orbiting this close to its parent star is known as a 'Hot Jupiter' or epistellar Jovian.

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Size: 4961px × 3650px
Photo credit: © DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: alien, artwork, astronomical, astronomy, astrophysical, astrophysics, clouds, earth-, epistellar, exoplanet, extrasolar, gas, giant, high, hot, illustration, jovian, jupiter, jupiter-, landscape, life, lifeless, parent, pegasean, pegasid, planet, planetary, roaster, science, space, star, stars, sun, sunrise, temperatures, universe