To: windowdude
Artist’s conception? What the? If the thing is only 20 light years away, why is there no photo?
19 posted on
08/08/2018 6:11:50 AM PDT by
Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle
Too big to photograph. LOL
To: Texas Eagle
What the? If the thing is only 20 light years away, why is there no photo? Because a photograph of it would show the point-spread function of the telescope/detector used to photograph it. That, along with spectra, would be useful to scientists but not to mass media.
27 posted on
08/08/2018 6:58:03 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
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To: Texas Eagle
From the article:
It was first detected using a radio telescope, the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array.
28 posted on
08/08/2018 7:00:26 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
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To: Texas Eagle
29 posted on
08/08/2018 7:02:35 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
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To: Texas Eagle
Photo of a planet 20 light years away?
One light year, the distance light travels in a year, at its speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.
34 posted on
08/08/2018 7:30:32 AM PDT by
ETL
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