Exoplanet Catalogue

Jan 20, 2016

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An exoplanet is a planet that orbits another star other than the Sun; since 1988, almost 6,000 of them have been confirmed. This catalogue provides a visual way to visualise exoplanets in their solar systems, together with their habitable zones. The data comes from the NASA Exoplanet Archive and it only includes all the confirmed exoplanets since August 2025. For more information about exoplanets, you can check the main article here.

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¶ Solar System
¶ Exoplanetary Systems
- ¶ Very large (x100)
- ¶ Large (x10)
- ¶ Medium
- ¶ Small
- ¶ Very small
¶ Notes

Solar System

Exoplanetary Systems

Very large

The size of those exoplanetary systems are scaled down 100 times compared to the Solar System, to allow them to be drawn correctly. Due to their sheer size, the orbital periods of those planets are measured in decades or even centuries; they are moving 100 times faster.

Large

The size of those exoplanetary systems are scaled down 10 times compared to the Solar System, to allow them to be drawn correctly, and moving 10 times faster.

Medium

The size of those exoplanetary systems are scaled down 1 times compared to the Solar System, to allow them to be drawn correctly.

Small

Very small

Notes

📏 Orbital parameters

Distance: $195 pixels = 149597871 Km = 1 Astronomical Unit$ ;
Planets: Confirmed planets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (last update: December 2015); only planets with known orbital period, semi-axis major and radius are shown;
Orbits: $1 second = 3 day$ ; orbits with unknown eccentricity in light grey. Initial positions are synchronised so that when they hit zero degrees, they transit in front of their stars, from the Earth’s perspective.

🪐 Planetary parameters

Planet size: $100 pixels = 69911 Km=1 Jupiter Radius$ (square root):

Temperature: planetary equilibrium temperature goes from $0K$ (−273.15°C) to $1500K$ (=1226.85°C); green area from $274K$ (0°C) to $313K$ (40°C):

Habitable zone: inner bound: $\sqrt{L/1.1}$ Astronomical Units, outer bound: $\sqrt{L/0.53}$ Astronomical Units ( $L$ is the star luminosity relative to the Sun); habitable zones are calculated taking into account only the first orbit:

⭐ Star parameters

Stars: for systems with multiple stars, only the primary one is visualised; stars are always assumed to be in the right focus of elliptical orbits;
Star size: $100 pixels = 696000 Km=1 Solar Radius$ (square root); stars with unknown radius are represented as $1 Solar Radius$ ;
Stellar type:

📄 Nomenclature list

2MASS: Two Micron All-Sky Survey
BD: Bonner Durchmusterung catalogue
BLG: Bulge field (Galactic center microlensing targets)
CD: Córdoba-Durchmusterung catalogue
CFBDSIR: Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey InfraRed
CFHTWIR: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Wide-field Infrared
COCONUTS: COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS
CoRoT: COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits project by CNES & ESA
CT: Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
DE: Delisle-Evans catalog
DENIS-P: Deep Near Infrared Survey (Proper motion objects)
DMPP: Dispersed Matter Planet Project
EPIC: Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (K2 / Kepler mission targets)
Gaia: ESA’s Gaia mission
Gl/GJ: Gliese / Gliese–Jahreiß Catalog (nearby stars)
GSC: Guide Star Catalog
HAT: Hungarian Automated Telescope Network by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
HD: Henry Draper Catalog
HIP: High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS-N)
HIP: Hipparcos Catalog
HR: Bright Star Catalog (Harvard Revised)
IRAS: Infrared Astronomical Satellite
K2: Kepler spacecraft by NASA, “Second Light” mission;
KELT: Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope survey
Kepler: Kepler spacecraft by NASA
KIC: Kepler Input Catalog
KMT: Korea Microlensing Telescope Network
KOBE: K-dwarfs Orbited By habitable Exoplanets
KOI: Kepler Object of Interest via Kepler spacecraft
LHS: Luyten Half-Second proper motion stars
LSPM: Lépine & Shara Proper Motion catalog
LTT: Luyten Two-Tenths catalog
Lupus: Lupus star-forming region
MASCARA: Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA project
MOA: Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
MWC: Mount Wilson Catalog (emission-line stars)
MXB: X-ray binary catalog (Mit X-ray Binaries)
NGC: New General Catalogue (star clusters, nebulae, galaxies)
NGTS: Next-Generation Transit Survey (Paranal Observatory, Chile)
NGTS: Next-Generation Transit Survey
NSVS: Northern Sky Variability Survey
OGLE: Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
PDS: Pico dos Dias Survey (young stars, disks)
PH: Planet Hunters (citizen science project for Kepler data)
POTS: Planetary Transit and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO)
PSR: Pulsar
Qatar: Qatar Exoplanet Survey Telescope
Ross: Frank Elmore Ross’s proper motion catalog
ROXs: Rho Ophiuchi X-ray stars
SWEEPS: Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (Hubble)
TAP: Transit and Photometry Survey
TOI: TESS Objects of Interest, via TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
UCAC3: USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (3rd version)
UKIRT: UK Infrared Telescope
USco: Upper Scorpius association
VHS: VISTA Hemisphere Survey
WASP: Wide Angle Search for Planets;
Wendelstein: Wendelstein Observatory survey
WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Wolf: Max Wolf’s catalog of high proper motion stars
WTS: WFCAM (Wide Field Camera Project) Transit Survey
XO: XO Telescope
YSES: Young Suns Exoplanet Survey
ZTF: Zwicky Transient Facility

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