6 New Exoplanets

I read an article from Science.com titled "A Disturbingly Weird Exoplanet System". It is about how there were six new exoplanets discovered recently with the Kepler Telescope launched in March of 2010. Five of the six planets in the system orbit their star closer than Mercury orbits the Sun, while the sixth orbits closer to Venus' position to the Sun. This tightly packed solar system has almost stumped researchers as to where planets are created in relationship to their star. Their models have shown planets being created far away from the sun and moved closer after time, but they think that this solar system proves differently.

I think that this is really interesting in that it could prove a totally different idea of where planets are created. I also think it is amazing that we are still finding exoplanets that we didn't even knew existed, although these six are gas giants so they cannot support life it is still very cool. The closeness of these planets has really created a mystery because "Making all five Kepler-11 planets far out and moving them in is so complicated it's unlikely" "But forming them about where they are now would require an unrealistic amount of solid particles to form a rocky core".