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To: NorthMountain

So the planet picture is a fake? Some imaginary image of what it should look like?


16 posted on 09/20/2023 3:48:54 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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To: SkyDancer

So the planet picture is a fake? Some imaginary image of what it should look like?

Those are artists renditions of what exoplanets “could” look like. We really can’t see them that close.


19 posted on 09/20/2023 4:21:39 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: SkyDancer

THAT picture is an “artist’s conception” of what the planet might look like. The actual data will consist of a handful of pixels imaged through a spectrometer. Very interesting to astronomers, but not particularly exciting for anybody else to look at.


20 posted on 09/20/2023 4:46:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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