Before we go, I just want to take a moment to share something beautiful.
Out of the blue, I received an email from artist and infographic designer Martin Vargic, and I have to admit, few random email have been quite so pleasing. He just wanted to let me know that he’d produced an infographic highlighting vast diversity of worlds that have been discovered since 1992. From pulsar orbiting planets, to gas giants, to earth-like worlds, he has included a little bit of everything in his poster of over 1100 known worlds, in which each world is depicted through a combination of known data – things like temperature, mass, and radius, and inferred geology and atmospheric possibilities. Ina separate infographic, he looks at almost 900 icy and rocky exoplanets and charts them out by temperature. This is just stunning science, and digital versions can be explored entirely for free.
This is you reminder – information is beautiful.