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See 17 Years of an Exoplanet’s Orbit in One Captivating GIF (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ok, I am properly and unreservedly impressed. Never in my life did I ever dream I would ever see such a thing, and it is wondrous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy that it seems exacly edge-on to us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm going to take a swing at that being a function of how it was identified in the first place.