triffid_hunter t1_iu9v1or wrote on October 29, 2022 at 6:06 PM

Reply to comment by Ferengi_Chief in Potentially a dumb question about the centre of our galaxy. by Ok-Internet7999

> 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

turnophrasetk421 t1_iu9x8q6 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 6:22 PM

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.

SexyNeanderthal t1_iuajdxa wrote on October 29, 2022 at 8:59 PM

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.