So how much light does the planet block out?
Well let’s imagine for a second that the star is perfectly uniform and is emitting exactly the same amount of light from every region.
Let’s also imagine the planet is a solid sphere that passes in front of it and that light can't travel through it.
Larger planets will then block out more light than a smaller planet because they cover up more of this hypothetical uniformly bright star.
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