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This image is highly erroneous according to the website http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/ as well as the wikipedia pages on epsilon Reticuli b and the mu Arae system. ep Ret b is the one with the large eccintricity and mu Arae's system is well known to have planets in nearly circular orbits. Furthermore it isn't mu Arae b that has a semimajor axis about the size of Earth's, that is mu Arae d (although current estimates place d slightly within Earth's orbit, and b nearer to the distance of Mars). Finally it would be best practice to label the planet in the image even though the caption does this (i.e. mu Arae d with the d included) especially for systems with more than one planet.