This gallery shows exoplanets visualizations that were used in the press releases of their original discovery announcements. Click the images for image sources and other resolutions versions. The text includes links to their wikipedia pages and the original press releases. The unconfirmed Gliese 581 g was also included.Original Press Releases: Many Billions of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zones around Red Dwarfs in the Milky Way, New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby cool star, A Potential Habitable Exoplanet in a Nearby Triple Star System
Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada (March 28, 2012)
Original Press Release: First habitable-zone super-Earth discovered in orbit around a Sun-like star
Original Press Release: 50 new exoplanets discovered by HARPS
Original Press Release: Astronomers find first habitable Earth-like planet
Image Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) (April 24, 2007)
Original Press Release: Potentially habitable planet discovered, Newly discovered planet may be first truly habitable exoplanet
Image Credit: Lynette Cook (September 29, 2010)
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