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That’s No Moon… That’s An Exoplanet!
Hackaday • • science
Key Points:
- Recent advancements have enabled the direct visualization of exoplanets, overcoming previous limitations where only indirect evidence was available.
- Jason Wang has created videos that use long-term images, spanning over a decade, to visualize the orbits of large exoplanets by applying motion interpolation techniques.
- Motion interpolation, a method borrowed from video editing, fills in gaps between infrequent observations to reconstruct planetary positions based on Kepler’s laws.
- The images used include data collected over many years, such as 30 images over 17 years and 10 images from the Keck Observatory over 12 years, requiring significant patience and long-term observation.
- This work contributes to scientific research on exoplanets and offers one of the closest visual experiences available to observing these distant star systems directly.
