This incredible animation shows all known star systems, 685 of them, comprising 1,700 exoplanets: Wow. No word on whether R2D2 has a missing map segment to show more systems :) [Apropos: an interesting answer to Fermi's paradox*: the aliens are silent because they are extinct. "In research aiming to understand how life might develop, scientists realized new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets." Even life on Earth has only existed for a relatively short period of time, cosmologically speaking...]
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