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Wang’s FAQ identifies the flare as residual scattered starlight after processing. It doesn’t explain why it varies between years, so the movie alone can’t separate hardware changes from processing: https://jasonwang.space/orbits.html

That's a good question. It looks to me like the mask itself isn't changing, but the image of the star gets sharper/smaller over time. This could be due to more effective adaptive optics (they've been working on these systems) but I you'd have to ask the author. www2.keck.hawaii.edu/inst/ao/

Trump will rename our country after him then the planet.

That’s amazing!

Awesome!

So cool, Paul. Very cool. Same here. I want more of this kind of thing. I really couldn't care less about boots on the ground on Mars. Send robots. We already know Mars is a frozen, desolate, uninhabitable place. I want to know what else is out there. I want missions like New Horizons.

These are absolutely directly imaged exoplanets. We have quite a few by now!

Is there a full code pipeline from raw observations to masking, alignment, motion interpolation, and final movie generation? I’d love to see all the steps!

Really appreciate you passing this along AND crediting everyone. Everything you post is fascinating and amazing, thanks.

It doesn't look like 10 images converted into a video. How do they interpolate?

Amazing! But just 10 images?

I mean, orbital physics is a pretty safe thing to interpolate

its HR 8799 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799

Any idea what the spots at star's 8 o'clock and 10 o'clock in the 2016-3-26 frame are?

WOW!!!!!!!!! 🤩

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That's REALLY cool! There are similar images of stars orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy!

Now let's send all the billionaires there

Or 1,258,277,152,853,247 if you use Kilometers and not Freedom Units

Absolutely amazing. I can think of a Rush song that would embody this

That is wicked. It is like a Kelidoscope? Sp in space

Don’t tell Trump. He will demand it be named after himself.

too wild

Pretty definitive evidence in the 5point vs 6point star drawing debate

Fascinating footage!

A decade of images makes those slow orbits feel real. Which planet’s motion is easiest to spot?

yeah those stars are hauling ass

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The video of those stars orbiting Sag A* just absolutely blow my mind Absolute proof of some massive gravitational object, most likely a black hole

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Went there and there was already a Walmart and a Starbucks. And traffic already sucked.

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Twelve years of observations capturing entire worlds in motion is incredible. It puts the vastness of space into perspective. Which of these planets fascinates you the most?

That star looks just like the one from Super Mario Bros. That's incredible.