This footage will blow your mind. You’re looking at a 12-year time lapse of four planets orbiting a star 133 light years away. In the case of this planetary system, astronomers got lucky. The planets are large and well-separated from their host star. So they could block the light from the star to capture the motion of the planets. The 12-year observation has been sped up to just 4.5 seconds. The black circle is the 30 million-year-old host star, and the four planets are 5 to 9 times more massive than Jupiter. Astronomers hope that the James Webb Space Telescope can provide more details about the atmospheres of these distant worlds.
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