I am trying to analyze some exoplanet data to further my understanding. I am not a scientist. Attaching the charts I thought were interesting. Most of this information is new to me, though I have a passing familiarity with the topic.
In college (a long time ago), I was helping my professor who was working on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) project, later named Spitzer. I wrote a thesis on detecting planets in circumstellar debris disk perturbations. It looks like from the data that we didn't end up detecting many (5) planets through that particular method. My summer project was mostly writing fortran code to detect albedo changes.
I sometimes wonder what habitable worlds look like, and sci-fi treatments of the topic are endlessly fascinating to me. Of course, all this is just in our own galaxy, and it boggles the mind to think of the variety of worlds that exist "out there".
Data used: Caltech exoplanet archive
by VerbaGPT