Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun. Over 2000 exoplanets have been discovered since 1988 (2073 planets in 1321 planetary systems including 507 multiple planetary systems as of 10 February 2016).

The Kepler space telescope has also detected a few thousand candidate planets, of which about 11% may be false positives. There is at least one planet on average per star. About 1 in 5 Sun-like stars have an "Earth-sized" planet in the habitable zone, with the nearest expected to be within 12 light-years distance from Earth. Assuming 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, that would be 11 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, rising to 40 billion if planets orbiting the numerous red dwarfs are included.

The least massive planet known is PSR B1257+12 A, which is about twice the mass of the Moon. The most massive planet listed on the NASA Exoplanet Archive is DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b, about 29 times the mass of Jupiter, although according to most definitions of a planet, it is too massive to be a planet and may be a brown dwarf instead. There are planets that are so near to their star that they take only a few hours to orbit and there are others so far away that they take thousands of years to orbit. Some are so far out that it is difficult to tell whether they are gravitationally bound to the star. Almost all of the planets detected so far are within the Milky Way, but there have also been a few possible detections of extragalactic planets.

Exoplanet (album)

Exoplanet is the debut studio album by progressive metal band The Contortionist, released through Good Fight Records on August 31, 2010. Several tracks from Apparition appear on this album, such as Eyes: Closed, which was re-worked and released as Flourish. A remastered edition of the album was released on January 22, 2016.

Concept

Guitarist Robby Baca explained,

Track listing

All songs written and composed by The Contortionist. 

Personnel

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