#1298: Exoplanet Neighborhood explain

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

A portrait of all habitable-zone planets within 60 light-years of Earth (constructed from statistical data on typical planet sizes and orbits)

[The image shows many planets in different colors and a legend shows planets at different sizes.]

Planets around sun-like stars

Planets around other stars

[A marker on both sides:]

Earth-sized planets

[Center of the image.]

Earth