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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

This video comprises 10 images taken with the Keck Telescope from 2010 to 2021. Jason Wang made the video, with data reduced by William Thompson and Christian Marois and observations organized by Quinn Konopacky, assisted by Bruce Macintosh (@bmacastro.bsky.social), Travis Barman, and Ben Zuckerman.

Read more: jasonwang.space/orbits.html Video credit: Jason Wang (Northwestern)/William Thompson (UVic)/Christian Marois (NRC Herzberg)/Quinn Konopacky (UCSD)

Would this be considered a direct image of an exoplanet? I thought that hadn't happened yet.

Thanks. I'm obviously way behind!