Intrinsic Weird

Scientific American: Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought - New research shows a pattern of exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars unlike what we see in our own system By Lauren Weiss

Yet, despite this wide range of possible sizes, planets tend to be about the same sizes as their neighbors. One of my collaborators decided they looked like “peas in a pod,” and that moniker became our shorthand for the pattern.