@olamundo My understanding is that we hav efewer methods to detect stars farther away from their host star. Therefore I might expect that there will be a bias in detecting fewer of them.

I am no astrophysicist though. So naturally I am not the best person to answer this.

@olamundo I will say this though. The method of detecting planets by a drop in luminosity as it transits is just one method, there are others. For example we also use variation in Doppler shift of the host star to detecting orbiting bodies.

@freemo @olamundo A method that was surprising to me is detecting a second planet by noticing orbital period variations of the first one. I think that it should be in principle doable even if their orbits are perpendicular, though the effect then might be smaller (but still nonzero).