The most common types of exoplanets are oddly missing from our own solar system 🤔 ðŸ”
Scaling K2, an ongoing project by @kevinkhu.bsky.social & @aussiastronomer.bsky.social, is diving into this enigma:
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/finding...
The Kepler mission and its follow-on K2 discovered thousands of exoplanets around different types of stars, and new work reveals broader trends in the planetary populations of the Milky Way.