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Description	English: Image originally from PlanetQuest. Modified with updated stats. 90% of planets with known distances lie within about 2000 light-years from our Sun, as of July 2014. Based on planets listed with distances at The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia http://exoplanet.eu/ on 10 July 2014. 1 parsec = 3.26156 ly
Source	http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/images/galaxy-graphic.jpg
Author	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:57, 10 July 2014	1,325 × 1,000 (447 KB)	Astredita	Updated distance from 300ly to 2000ly and replace "most" with a more specific 90%. As of 10 July 2014, the number of planets with known distances is 842. 90% of these are within 585 parsecs or 1908 light-years. So changed the text on the image to say "...
	11:46, 23 July 2013	1,325 × 1,000 (714 KB)	Twinsday	higher resolution
	06:16, 31 January 2010	367 × 267 (31 KB)	Vikrant42	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Image from http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm showing the region in w:Milky Way Galaxy in which most of the discovered w:Extrasolar planet exist. }} \|Source=http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas

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