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No, they are imaged in reflected light, rather than a transit (silhouette). The parent star is masked off, and I’m pretty sure it’s an image generated from mul
by Roboprog 6y ago
No, they are imaged in reflected light, rather than a transit (silhouette).
The parent star is masked off, and I’m pretty sure it’s an image generated from multiple telescopes, “interferometry”, as others have mentioned.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoNo, this was actually shot with SPHERE, which is a single telescope instrument: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/sphere/ https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/v...
- Roboprog 6y agoInteresting. It’s attached to one of the VLTs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope Unclear if they use the auxiliaries as part of the process.
- hanoz 6y agoIndeed I should have asked if both planets just happened to be passing behind the star? Alternatively, have they just been superimposed beside the star at arbitrary positions? I'm still none the wiser.
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