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• jcims 8y ago
  I guess what I'm hoping for is something akin to Hubble's photo of Pluto. A blurry blob with patches of color. In the animated image at the top right of the page you linked, those planets are between 14 and 69 AU from their star. Let's pick the one at about 5 o'clock, it's the second most distant at about 25AU, or ~2.5 billion miles from the little yellow star. Wikipedia says its ~1.3 times the radius of Jupiter, so let's round up to get even numbers and say it's 125,000 miles in diameter. That means the actual scale size of that planet is 1/20,000th the distance between those two dots in the image, meaning that blurry dot is about 2,000 times as large as the planet itself. We have a long way to go.