One of the best things the comic strip xkcd does is present the mind-bogglingly large in a beautiful, elegant way. This time, the webcomic’s artist turned his eye to exoplanets, presenting all the other worlds we’ve yet discovered in one image, to scale. There sure are an awful lot of them.
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Still not big enough? See the original right over here.
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Published: Jun 21, 2012 03:10 pm