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A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

402 points · 82 comments · mariuz

tocs3 · 1790949784 · focus · HN ↗
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.
1. dylan604 · 1790988892 · focus · HN ↗
  > There should be much much more of this sort of thing.
  As more telescopes come online, there'll be more data available for this type of stuff. You gotta realize that when a telescope only looks at something once per year, it takes a long time to gather enough data for these types of images to be created. My go to example is the motion of stars around SagA*.

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