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Alien planets come in several varieties – some types we know and love from looking around the solar system, others are very different from anything we have previously encountered. The main groups of exoplanets found so far (doubtless others will turn up in due course) are Hot Jupiters, Hot Neptunes, Cold Jupiters, Super Jupiters, Super Earths, Little Blue Dots (or Exo-Earths, Twin-Earths) and Free-Floating Planets.
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Kitchin, C. (2012). A Quick Tour of the Exoplanet Menagerie. In: Exoplanets. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0644-0_2
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