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Make sure to click the lead image to see the star also.
by colanderman 6y ago
Make sure to click the lead image to see the star also.
- HorizonXP 6y agoThanks for the notice, I missed it, and it's much more impressive this way! I thought I was looking at the star and a single planet.
- oska 6y agoThe image literally sent chills down my spine.
- colanderman 6y agoAha, apparently there is an image sidebar which is hidden on mobile, where is given the following reason for the star's haloed appearance: "The image was captured by blocking the light from the young, Sun-like star (top-left of centre) using a coronagraph, which allows for the fainter planets to be detected. The bright and dark rings we see on the star’s image are optical artefacts."