Originally Posted by
Steely Glint
Meanwhile, 300 light years away in the constellation of Musca (head straight down and slightly coreward):
So, what you're looking at here is an image of a star of comparable mass to our sun with most of the light filtered out, which reveals....
Two dots which are giant exoplanets. The first has a mass of 14x Jupiter and orbits at 160 au. The second has a mass of 6x Jupiter and orbits at 320 au.
In terms of our solar system, this would place them well beyond the Kuiper belt and out into the further reaches of the scattered disc.
What the fuck are they doing orbiting all the way out there? I just don't know, all I do know is that we can take pictures of exoplanets now, and that's cool.