Planets Orbiting HR 8799 (IMAGE)

National Research Council of Canada

Planets Orbiting HR 8799

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An animation demonstrating plausible orbits of the HR 8799 planets through one complete period (~465 years) of HR 8799b, the outermost planet. For each orbit of HR 8799b, HR 8799c and HR 8799d will orbit twice, and HR 8799e will orbit four times.

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LLNL & Q. M. Konopacky

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