Fraser Cain on Nostr: Watch an Actual Exoplanet Orbit its Star for 17 Years Astronomers have been studying ...

Watch an Actual Exoplanet Orbit its Star for 17 Years

Astronomers have been studying the exoplanetary system Beta Pictoris for 17 years, watching as an enormous planet is orbiting the star. This is one of the most dramatic views ever seen with the "direct method" of exoplanet astronomy, and you can just watch an actual planet orbit an actual star. Beta Pictoris b is the perfect world for this observation; it's far from its star, large, and extremely bright. Astronomers will have watched the planet complete one full orbit around the star in another six years.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/08/watch-an-exoplanets-17-year-journey-around-its-star/