GPIES Observations (VIDEO)
Caption
A team of astronomers spent five years on the Gemini South telescope photographing 531 young stars in search of Jupiter-like planets. An advanced camera, the Gemini Planet Imager, blocks light from each star in order to image the much fainter infrared glow from a planet. Every circle is an observation of a star in the southern sky: blue circles are stars with an observed exoplanet; red circles indicate stars with dusty comet belts; gray circles are stars with no detected planets. Multiple circles indicate stars, like 51 Eri, that were observed multiple times to track the orbital motion of the planet over time. (y)
Credit
GPIES team, with animation by Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley.
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