How do the other planets line up?

As you know, as humanity, we have now built huge telescopes that we can observe very far away in space and send them into space. 

One of the first of these is the Hubble telescope. More recently, the James Webb (JWT) space telescope came into operation and in a sense revolutionized space exploration. Then there is the Euclid space telescope sent into orbit by the European Space Agency. Although Euclid was sent to orbit mostly for the study of dark matter in space, it is technologically superior to all space telescopes. Therefore, this is also a telescope used in space exploration.

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I recently read an interesting news story about this research. 

As you may know, planets outside our Solar System are called exoplanets, or exoplanets. 

These exoplanets are normally not so easy to detect from so far away because they don't emit light on their own like stars. 

However, in this age of advancing technology, many exoplanets have been detected.

Even within our own galaxy, the Milky Way, many Earth-like planets have been detected. 

Naturally, it is not so easy to determine how similar they are to Earth from such a distance, and without a light source to do some analysis.

However, scientists are working hard on this subject. For this purpose, they have come up with some criteria of their own.

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One of the parameters they look at in their search for similarity is the planetary alignment within that star system!

What do I mean? For example, in our solar system, the sizes of the planets are not arranged in such a regular order. Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, is quite far from the sun, so is Saturn, but they are not the farthest planets. 

In terms of proximity to the sun, the planets are not arranged from smallest to largest, nor from largest to smallest.

The Solar System is almost like a system of randomly distributed planets. There are big planets and relatively small planets.

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And what is the most common alignment in other star systems in space?

You would think it would be like our Solar System, but no!

Before we look at the most common alignments in other star systems, let's look at the most common planetary sizes. I think that's a more interesting question. 

Yes, in most star systems the planets are about the same size. If you pick a green pea from the branch and open it up, the peas next to each other are more or less the same size. 

The planets of other star systems in space are generally the same size.

So there is no point in asking whether they are arranged in order from big to small or from small to big.

As in the solar system, there are hardly any star systems with planets of different sizes.

In this sense, we can say that we have a rare planetary system in space.

Is Earth really the only living planet in space?

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Of course, this information is what we can know for now, as far as this high level of our technology can detect. Technology has advanced a lot, but we are still at the beginning.

In the future, perhaps we will have much more advanced technology and we will be able to make much more accurate detections.

It may not be the right thing to comment on exoplanets that are so far away that it is difficult to detect their existence under normal conditions.

Nevertheless, when I see what levels humanity has reached today, what they are curious about and what they are dealing with, I am glad that we have at least taken a very small step in the space age for other countries, but a very big step for our country, even if we started with experiments at the level of Ali throw the ball in space, tut Ali tut.

I don't know when they will put it in the queue, but I hope that one day we will send our own telescope into space, and maybe we will start to study distant planets.

You never know, maybe we'll figure it out.

How are the other planets ranked within their own star systems? 

Are most exoplanets in star systems of equal size, as we've been told?

Or are they planets of scattered sizes, like the Solar System if we could look much closer?

If they are of different sizes, how do they line up?

Stay with science.

Love and regards to everyone from Moscow.