The discovery of a solar system with its planets rotating “incredibly”

A number of astronomers discover a solar system with its amazingly rotating planets.

• The discovery of a solar system with its planets rotating “incredibly”

A number of astronomers have discovered a solar system with its amazingly rotating planets.

A video clip shows four points of light moving in partial concentric circles around a black disk at its centre.

Scientists explain that the four points are exoplanets, as the black disk obscures its star, 133.3 light years from Earth.

Partial circles are its orbital motions, a time lapse compiled from 12 years of observations.

The star is HR8799, and in 2008 the exoplanets formed the first system (not the first exoplanet, it was “2M1207b” in 2004) that astronomers have ever seen directly.

“It is usually difficult to see the planets in orbit,” he says. “For example, it is not clear that Jupiter or Mars revolve around our sun because we live in the same system and we do not have a top-down view. Astronomical events happen either very quickly or slowly. too severe to be captured on film.”

He continued, “But this video shows planets moving on a human time scale. I hope people can enjoy something wondrous.”

The current number of confirmed exoplanets (planets outside the solar system) is more than 5,200, but most of them cannot be seen in reality.