SciShow Space | Why Our Solar System Is Weirder Than You'd Think

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SciShow Space: Research suggests that nearly every star has at least one planet, but we haven't found any other solar systems that look quite like ours. Host: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Interview with Lauren Weiss (http://lweiss25.wixsite.com/weiss) https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/204/will-the-real-first-exoplanet-please-stand-up/ https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail.html https://www.universetoday.com/38118/how-was-the-solar-system-formed/ http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1913PA.....21..424M https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.5177.pdf http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/20180601-mars-growth-stunted.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06204.pdf https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/our-solar-system-is-even-stranger-than-we-thought/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.06945.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394300/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jupiter-destroyer-of-worlds-may-have-paved-the-way-for-earth/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.02960.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/young-jupiter.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.5177.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.04233.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.02960.pdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-a-stellar-intruder-deform-our-outer-solar-system/ http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Aug17/PSRD-formation-times.pdf ------ Images: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA08042&xid=17259,15700023,15700124,15700149,15700186,15700191,15700201,15700237,15700242 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11365 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11541 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars,_Earth_size_comparison.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_planets_comparison.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_Globe-MESSENGER_mosaic_centered_at_0degN-0degE.jpg https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA22192.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exoplanet_Comparison_CoRoT-7_b.png https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0819a/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/dramatic-jupiter/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/jupiter-marble https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12021 https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast27b/ https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1813e/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12086 https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast87c/ https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/solar-system-planets-and-sun-flat-design-style-vector-illustration-of-cartoon-solar-gm938100316-256544525


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