#3103: Exoplanet System
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[Central diagram showing a star with various planets and objects orbiting around it, with labels and descriptions connected by dotted lines:]
[Label pointing to a large planet very close to the star:]
Giant planet orbiting so close that it's actually rolling on the star's surface
[Label pointing to a small object near the star:]
Hot Jupiter
[Label pointing to a small object:]
Mini Neptune
[Label pointing to a planet in the middle distance:]
Planet that could be habitable, if there's a form of life that hates water but loves acid and being on fire
[Label pointing to another object:]
Cold Jupiter
[Label pointing to a circled area:]
Potentially habitable void
[Label pointing to another planet:]
Hot Mars
[Label pointing to a planet:]
Planet that may actually be in the habitable zone, according to a very optimistic modeling paper by some desperate postdocs
[Label pointing to a small object:]
There's a pulsar here but it's probably fine
[Label pointing to another object:]
A waterworld paradise with beautiful oceans and warm-- wait, no, we just got new measurements, it's a hellish steam oven
[Label pointing to a small object:]
Mini Pluto
[Label pointing to another object:]
Lukewarm Jupiter
[Label pointing to a planet:]
Planet whose atmosphere is confirmed to contain atoms
[Label pointing to another object:]
Earthlike data artifact
[Label pointing to another object:]
Wet Saturn
[Label pointing to another object:]
Either a gas giant or a fist-sized rock, depending which calibration method you use
[Label pointing to another object:]
Faint dust cloud that will cause several papers to be retracted
[Label pointing to another object:]
Somehow this whole system is smaller than the orbit of Mercury?!
[Label pointing to another object:]
Planet whose surface may host conditions suitable for rocks
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Sure, this exoplanet we discovered may seem hostile to life, but our calculations suggest it's actually in the accretion disc's habitable zone.