Upside-down, inside-out Solar Systems

For millennia, the human race has marveled at the planets (or “wanderers”) in the night sky. What bizarre worlds are hidden just beyond view? Now, we have the technology to study not just the planets of our solar system that were known to the ancients, but thousands of planets around other stars, light years from us. In this talk, I will reveal some of the most mind-boggling aspects of planetary systems thus found that have not been properly appreciated by the broader public. We have been looking for ET, but in a Galactic context, perhaps we are the aliens.

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