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

Re:A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four... by cloudbonsai on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:03PM (#49939654)

I’m curious what that blight red smoke flickering around the star is. Some kind of interplanatory gas?

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Re:A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four... by rozab on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:56PM (#49940049)

I think it might just be diffraction artifacts animated by the interpolation (I hereby invoke cunnignhams law)

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Re:A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four... by wthomp on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:39PM (#49940310)

That’s right. We only have images take every year or so, so I did a motion interpolation between the images using Keplers laws. Diffraction close in gets pulled around by the interpolation.

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