Triple Star System Planet Is Directly Imaged - That's Rare! | Video

Using the SPHERE imager om the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a planet (HD 131399Ab) with three suns. Take a tour of the system with VLT imagery and and an artist impression of their orbits. -- Full Story: goo.gl/sLxrAF
Space.com / ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser/K. Wagner et al / edited by @SteveSpaleta / stevespaleta

[@nakinajay]

Bob Lazar wasn’t kidding

[@florac6906]

He didn't lie

[@PheNom1466]

Thought it was Bonnie Hill that drew the map in hypnosis from there abduction before the system was even discovered.

[@ryanh3951]

Betty and Barney hills abducters are from here, bob lazar said the craft he worked on came from here as well. I would love to see what it looks like there.

[@RogueSeraph]

Imagine living on that exoplanet...a period without nightime with 3 stars shining in the sky...simply amazing...

[@humToNoise]

...and fire...and death...

[@DewceBox]

Wow, I think that's "Gliese 667 A,B,C the stars and Gliese 667 Cc the tatoonie-like exoplanet"

[@spinvalve]

But it does experience night time, when all 3 stars are aligned on the same hemisphere shown at 1:32 only that the daylight and seasonal cycles will be way out of whack compared to ours.

[@DewceBox]

the only night time is the side of the planet

[@RogueSeraph]

+spinvalve I know. that's why I said there was a period without night time

[@nimroids6587]

Btw this isn’t Zeta Reticuli. That’s a 2 star binary system in a totally different constellation. A lot of people are in the comments confusing this system as the one Bob Lazar mentioned, assumably because this actually has a detected exoplanet. A couple things should be mentioned: First, Due to its size and conditions of its system there is no way this planet is actually terrestrial and if it were it would be completely inhospitable. in fact it’s more likely that the “planet” is actually a brown dwarf star. Secondly, the Zeta Reticuli system orbits on a different angled plane than our system. From our prospective we see the system from more of a top down kind of prospective, making the transit method to detect orbiting bodies impossible. However this does not mean that there are no planets orbiting the stars. The stars have a very safe and stable orbit that is both far enough, and interact with each other just enough so that the combined energy of their presence could theoretically aid the development of complex life on any earth sized terrestrial world that orbits around the same distance as earth does to our sun without posing a severe danger. The advantage of additional energy from 2 stars could also possibly make up for the systems relatively young age. If life exists there I hypothesize that it probably evolved extraordinarily fast and experienced few extinction events on the way in contrast to Earth. I assume that this is what gave rise to the supposed advanced civilization there. Additionally the possibility of a planetary system existing in Zeta Reticuli is supported do to the presence of what scientists believe to be a dust disk detected around one of the stars. This indicates that the materials necessary for planets to form is present. Anyway that’s my little schizophrenic rant lol. I just wanted to leave this here for anyone genuinely interested in that system since it seems a lot of people are here for that. Unfortunately not a lot of information is found easily about that system without doing some serious research but I strongly encourage anyone interested to look into it. I’m no crazy ufo conspiracy theorist, I’m just someone with a deep interest in star system physics. And even with my limited knowledge I have to admit Zeta Reticuli is definitely one of the most perfect places for a world with life to exist.

[@jared9537]

U sir are awesome

[@UsernameNULL755]

hold the fuck up, we have an actual photo of an exoplanet? moreover, an exoplanet from a tripple star system? WOW!

[@FruitPunchSamuraii13]

I wouldn't say a photo. It says in the video that it's an artist's impression.

[@UsernameNULL755]

but near the end at 1:45 it looks pretty much like an infra-red photo to me

[@ximaxwellix]

it is a photo, but not the video. I think that's what Ryuu wanted to say

[@yargenberry]

@@UsernameNULL755 it doesn't matter what it looks like, when the person above has already said that it explains in the description. Fucking 🤡

[@mujistic]

Beautiful

[@steezy2428]

So bob lazar said that the ufos from Area 51 are from this star system supposedly

[@renzz_4272]

Betty hill a subject of abduction said to draw a map of this star system.

[@like-icecream]

Yes he either copied Betty and Barnie Hill story or they all lied

[@like-icecream]

I asked a Nasa scientist to point the James Webb telescope here and see if we can get anything clearer, he said he didn't make those decisions but hopefully he told someone who does.

[@GulpingHaterade]

Graphics team is great

[@gabedelgado186]

So this Is where the grays live

[@spinvalve]

From the linked article in the description. And to the kids out there - gain more insight by reading more : "For about half of the planet's orbit, which lasts 550 Earth-years, three stars are visible in the sky, the fainter two always much closer together, and changing in apparent separation from the brightest star throughout the year," Wagner said in the statement. "For much of the planet's year, the [three] stars appear close together, giving it a familiar nightside and dayside with a unique triple sunset and sunrise each day. As the planet orbits and the stars grow farther apart each day, they reach a point where the setting of one coincides with the rising of [the other two] - at which point the planet is in near-constant daytime for about one-quarter of its orbit, or roughly 140 Earth-years."

[@bengrant8819]

It feels like I want to be there

[@frost1183]

Zeta reticuli has a solar mass of 0.95 which is very close to a full 1 I wonder what’s near it

[@carlahead2945]

Which space telescope is capturing this triple star system? Is the biggest star in this system named Rigel? And what are the names of the other two stars?

[@MyMinorE]

very nice find. i trust you

[@DovCS]

WOW!

[@CapofigoGamingChannel]

Nice canon mate.

[@talaydanielastro]

song?

[@hobohistorian4732]

Home

[@Sid-iu1kj]

coooooool

[@movieclips7230]

If anyone is interested in this planet system there is a KZbin video from a creator called ‘the why files’ watch a video named ‘10 year mission to another planet’ thank me later

[@bengrant8819]

I feel so close to here

[@frost1183]

Starseed

[@like-icecream]

👽👽👽

[@michiganjack1337]

Wicked.

[@TheLukanda]

#Trisolaris

[@ryanlane2503]

Almost looked real

[@user-rp6gn4pb5v]

Nuestros enemigos

[@noahboss1048]

how to you take a bath or shower in space

[@user-vh8bm9mu4u]

Aren't these actually pretty common? Like 1/3 of the lights in the night sky are multi-star systems? Or was that just an exaggeration I heard somewhere? I mean I always thought it made sense, seeing how stars are formed, that single star systems wouldn't be a vast majority.

[@xehP]

Exoplanet tho

[@user-vh8bm9mu4u]

***** Ohhh lol read right over that part.

[@kyousey]

Namek...

[@iuwenalis]

Caralho :-o que foda vey :-o

[@TylerVogel1]

dude if your still in space I triple dog dare you to pee your pants aboard the I.S.S.

[@frost1183]

Ok I’ll try it

[@TylerVogel]

@@frost1183 lol

[@wrexshunt]

Wtf

[@wrexshunt]

If you think this is fake then I think your a blockhead....

[@jonarlin6527]

Artist impression??? They always are. Whey not show the actual images?

[@arkaus8888]

They did at 1:36 which is the most detailed image we can get at the moment.

[@fatherkausar2700]

@@arkaus8888 ccxx

[@mattiacardone5851]

FAKE!

[@talaydanielastro]

you are fake

[@bongscott3738]

Lame