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  • There are many more of these : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
    by bananzamba
  • Space and the enormity of it breaks your mind when you start thinking about it.

    The star in the middle of the animation, is approximately 20AU (Astronomical Units) in size looking at the scale line. 20AU is approximately 1.8b miles/3b kilometres or approximately the distance from the Sun to Uranus.

    If Google's correct, if everyone on Earth lived on that star - each and every one of us could have a backyard larger than the surface area of Earth ;p

    by arlattimore
  • Also check out the Simulated Observation of the Solar System by the Habitable Worlds Observatory (under "Videos"), expected to be launched in the 2040s, the first to be able to detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars! https://habitableworldsobservatory.org/multimedia

    DrBecky's video on it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z2JIkAPcdnU

    by 7373737373
  • I'm excited for the leap in this tech that the Nancy Grace Roman telescope's new chronograph promises.

    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/the-roman-coronagraph-inst...

    The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, which is 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star.

    by ortusdux
  • Amazing. Scrolling down one of the comments has an animation of starts around the center of the Milky Way. I have seen a few short ones of nebulae. There should be much much more of this sort of thing.

    I appreciate that scientist are not always after the pretty pictures. They can be expensive, do not always give the data needed, and the experiments do not always produce data that has obvious pretty picture potential. Still, for the average non professional scientist (me) the pictures are about all I will ever get out of the science.

    by tocs3
  • Worth being very clear that this is not a real video of the system, it's 10 static images with a few hundred interpolated "fake" frames. Still very cool though.
    by hatthew
  • I swear I'm not trying to criticize, but, uh--why only 10 or so photos? Why not just film it long term? Is it our position in earth's orbit that only lets us image that system once a year or so?
    by whiterook6
  • Not to self-plug, but here's my video of the same four planets:

    https://sefffal.github.io/images/orbital-animation.mp4

    The creator of the GIF above used a data from a range of different telescopes and wavelengths, whereas I made this with using data only from same telescope (Keck), instrument, and wavelength (3.5 microns; near infrared).

    by wthomp

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