Some space events happen too slowly to capture as a movie, but a new time-lapse video provides a rare glimpse at another solar system's planets revolving around their star.
Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang squished 12 years of real telescope images into a 4.5-second video of HR 8799, a star considered not too distant from Earth at just over 133 light-years away.
New time lapse video shows 12 years of exoplanets orbiting their star
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Scientist Releases Amazing Video of Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Star
Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of exoplanets orbiting a distant star, using observations spanning the last 12 years.
The 4.5-second clip shows four planets orbiting a star dubbed HR8799, some 133.3 light-years away from Earth.
Watch: Video shows distant worlds orbiting a star 133 light-years away
They orbit a star named HR8799, which is about 1.5 times more massive than our sun and approximately five times brighter.
On Tuesday, Northwestern University released a time-lapse video of this planetary system, providing a rare glimpse of HR8799 and its four orbiting planets.
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Over the last two years, astronomer Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, reported observations of the system, revealing a dozen new moons.
Watch Four Planets Spin Around a Star 130 Light-Years Away
Astronomical phenomena tend to occur over timespans that dwarf our human scale—a galaxy changes over millions and billions of years, not decades. But a new timelapse of observations of a distant star system shows its clockwork motion over just 12 years, packed into only a few seconds.
See 4 Exoplanets Dance Around Their Star in Wondrous Time-Lapse Video - CNET
You'll notice the central star is covered up. That's to help us see the faint planets around it. The video has been processed to bring the planets into focus and to smooth out their motion.
HR 8799 is just over 133 light-years away from us in the constellation Pegasus. That still puts it in our cosmic neighborhood. It's a much younger star than our sun and its planets are massive gas giants bigger than Jupiter. What we're seeing is only a small part of their journey.
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