Exoplanet Transit Diagram

This visual aid demonstrates an exoplanet transit, a crucial method for discovering planets outside our solar system. It shows a small blue object, representing an exoplanet, moving across the face of a larger yellow sphere, which symbolizes its host star. The straight line indicates the exoplanet's orbital path from our vantage point, where it temporarily blocks a tiny fraction of the star's light. This illustration helps explain how astronomers detect these distant worlds, though it's important to remember the image is not to scale.

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