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- When my mother was born, plate tectonics was a hypothesis. When I was born we didn't know for certain if planets existed outside of our solar system.by sixothree
- 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 - There are many more of these : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...by bananzamba
- 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 - 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 - For those that don't know, the Drake equation [0] included a term for "percentage of stars with at least one orbiting planet".
That was originally assumed to be non-zero but very low. Modern planet hunting techniques have revised that number to be close to 100%. [1]
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#:~:text=Fractio...
by alexpotato - 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
- 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