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Ferengi_Chief t1_iu9u458 wrote

  1. We never took (EDIT: detailed) pictures of exoplanets. These pictures are illustrated and fake. The only pictures we have, are spectral lines and so on.
  2. We took a picture of Sagittarius A*, not exactly of the black hole but of the hot gas around it
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triffid_hunter t1_iu9v1or wrote

> We never took pictures of exoplanets. These pictures are illustrated and fake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exoplanets ;)

Sure they're no artist's rendition, but they are legit pictures of exoplanets :P

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turnophrasetk421 t1_iu9x8q6 wrote

We have "data" of exoplanets. Low rez maps spectrograph, thermal etc.

We have not the resolution yet. Picture of the forge of God voyager would only be a pixel away from sun on jwt image. We talking things so far away they don't even take up a pixel at current resolutions. Give it time, ten years from now we will have doubled or maybe even quadrupled resolution.

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SexyNeanderthal t1_iuajdxa wrote

It's worth noting that those are some of the closest exoplanets to our solar system. There's only a few star systems with exoplanets that are close enough to get pictures with.

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UmbralRaptor t1_iu9vd0g wrote

> We never took pictures of exoplanets. These pictures are illustrated and fake. The only pictures we have, are spectral lines and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exoplanets

Now you can complain about how these are unresolved, and to the extent we have maps of exoplanets, they're very low resolution reconstructions of temperature, but we do have pictures.

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