It reinforces the notion that life certainly does exist outside or solar system, regardless if we ever discover it or not. These are just the known planets in our remote galaxy.

XKCD today has the currently known planets drawn to scale:

http://xkcd.com/1071/

Make sure you hover your mouse over the image to get the alt-text. It's an interesting factoid.

Dan

-- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin

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