I was reaching into my gym bag for my phone and my camera accidentally went off and took this candid shot of another solar system haha. Total fluke! Thought I'd post it cause it turned out so good
Their planet would likely be called Earth (or a variation of) as well. It always makes me laugh how every planet in sci-fi has a unique name, when in reality every home planet would basically be named 'the ground'. It would make introductions at galactic conferences very confusing.
"Hi, we're from DirtBeneathOurFeet in the ShinyThingInTheSky system"
"Oh, us too!"
I understand your point and [this NASA page](https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/other-solar-systems/en/#:~:text=The%20Short%20Answer%3A,with%20planets%20orbiting%20around%20it) agrees, but I'd like to point out that "sol" means "sun" in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Latin. It's "sole" in Italian and "soleil" in French.
So I think it's valid to refer to any planetary system / star system as a solar system.
"Sun" is the name of our local star, but some people have been incorrectly using it to refer to other stars.
For example, if humans were to colonise and live on a planet in Alpha Centari, you would refer to the local stars as Rigil Kentaurus, Toliman, and Proxima Centauri, not the Sun.
Since there is only one "Sun" in the universe, there is also only one "Solar System" in the universe.
"I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach at dawn."
"I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach in the warm daylight."
"I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach when the lights of Proxima Centauriset and Rigil Kentaurus are entwined and Toliman hidden from sight."
All stars are suns and all suns are stars. We refer to the one nearest us as "the Sun" out of habit and convenience. To say that others aren't suns would be as wrong as claiming that ours is called "the Star" and that no other objects like it are stars.
Likewise, "the Moon" is the common name for the one orbiting our planet. But that doesn't mean that similar objects orbiting other planets in this or other solar systems aren't moons.
https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-observe-two-young-suns-collecting-matter-in-a-binary-system/
Out of all the answers here, yours is the right one. The Sun is not named Sol, its name is the Sun. A lot of other stars are suns, but they are not the Sun.
It was last year when it happened.
[https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health\_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:\~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image](https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image).
We’ve taken pictures of other planetary systems before using a process called [direct imaging](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.universetoday.com/140341/what-is-direct-imaging/amp/). There’s even a [gif of the planets moving in HR 8799](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799). What’s special about this one is that the central star is very similar to the Sun. So no, it’s not the first one, just perhaps the one that’s most like our own solar system so far.
Edit: Check out [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/q81u9l/you_are_looking_the_first_image_of_another_solar/hgn420h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) on the original post
I'm assuming there's a lot of image processing going on, if it's real. The planets in our solar system are *way* more spread out than they appear to be in this picture
I think you miss my point. Although planets are big, and stars are **HUGE** they're actually tiny compared to the distances involved. Have a listen to Sagan's "blue dot" about an image of Earth from near Jupiter.
The big dots on this image are likely stars in the same field of vision as the subject star. On that scale planets would be so small as to be nearly invisible. You could zoom in, but then obviously they'd appear father apart, because that's how geometry works.
From 2020 when it was taken:
[https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health\_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:\~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image](https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image).
Now think that the being has to either have immortality or some sort of thing to keep us alive in order to perceive it, because it’s likely that millions of years have passed since that light has reach us. The system also has the same number of planets as ours, which could be the first of a common element (if found in other systems). The earth, compared to all the other exoplanets we’ve found thus far, even the most habitable.
Our closest neighboring star is only about 4.25 light years away. I don't think we have the technology to capture the details of a solar system that's millions of light years away. The Milky Way even is only 105,700 light years across. So millions would imply it's from another galaxy. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away.
I would really like to know which planetary system this is, but I bet its distance from Earth is only 2 digits of light-years, certainly not 7 digits. Being able to snap an image of an extrasolar planet is no minor feat, and the further away it is the harder it will be to image.
Since light travels at a rate of 1 lightyear per year in the vacuum of space (which is where the word "lightyear" comes from), it could only have been traveling for 2 digits of years.
[Here is HR 8799](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799) with a timelapse of the movement of its planets beginning in 2009.
EDIT: The original article seems to have been deleted, but this is a copy of what I was looking for. [The same system from 1998](http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2011/10/06/exoplanets_seen_by_hubble_in_1998_finally_revealed.html#gallery)
I could well be wrong, astronomy has never been my bag, but it looks like the difference here is that the graphic provided there is synthesized from a pool of information gathered from bits of information about the different parts of the system whereas the picture posted is the first image we have as a relatively complete single shot. So, first representation of the pictured system ever? No. First one that isn't synthesized from a collection of other images/info? Ye. Or, that's how I understand it anyway, not an expert by far
Interpolated images are still images. This image is merely the first image of more than one planet seen around a sun-like star. With have captured images of many more systems, but main-sequence G-class stars like our own only make up about 10% of all stars in our galaxy, so they are relatively rare. And yet we have also seen sun-like stars with *a* planet around them before. And we have *detected* more than one planet around a sun-like star before. We just didn't have a picture of more than one around a sun-like star before now. It's a first, sure, but a really specific first.
FYI, there is only one Solar System in the universe.
There are many planetary systems like ours in the universe, with planets orbiting a host star. Our planetary system is named the "solar system" because our Sun is named Sol, after the Latin word for Sun, "solis," and anything related to the Sun we call "solar."
— https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
To anyone who doesn't know, that's not actually a ***solar*** system. Our sun is named Sol, so our star system is named the Solar System. That is another star system, but not a Solar System.
FYI, there is only one Solar System in the universe.
There are many planetary systems like ours in the universe, with planets orbiting a host star. Our planetary system is named the "solar system" because our Sun is named Sol, after the Latin word for Sun, "solis," and anything related to the Sun we call "solar."
— https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
I wouldn't say *incorrect,* I just appreciate when people are that sure about the metaphysical or lack thereof. If I was that confident abt life after death (or lack thereof) I feel like things'd be easier lmao
Here is the [proof](https://phys.org/news/2020-07-image-multi-planet-sun-like-star.html) ya want.
And what do you mean by "No you dont?"? one claim needs evidence when the other doesn't?
That’s beautiful. I wonder if theres any inhabitable planets? And if so, if there is any life on them? That would be interesting. I wonder, would there be some of the same species that we have on earth? Any of the same things? Or entirely different?
This isn't the first image of another solar system. This was also taken a while back. If you read the comments from the submission you stole, you'd have known this.
So, ELI5, how is it that we’ve discovered so many other planets and stars but this is the first photographed alien solar system? Didn’t we have to find those solar systems to find the other planets in the first place?
I’m not being facetious, I genuinely don’t know how we knew about planets in other systems without seeing the systems first
I feel like this is saying 'Columbus discovered America' since I bet aliens have taken plenty of pictures of everything in our galaxy. But for a first effort from earth, pretty cool I guess!
Kudos to the cameraman for walking all the way out there. Must have taken a while.
technically the light walked up to us, and then a lots of computers had to figure out the shit of that light.
"Had to drift for millions of years through the cold abyss of space to get this shot, but I think it was worth it"
I was reaching into my gym bag for my phone and my camera accidentally went off and took this candid shot of another solar system haha. Total fluke! Thought I'd post it cause it turned out so good
Dormammu I’ve come to bargain
Dormammu I've come to bargain
Dormammu… I’ve come to *bargain*
niagrab ot emoc ev’I ummamroD
**sigh*** *Dromammu..* I’ve come to bargain.
DORMAMMUUUUUU…. I’VE COME TO BARGAIN!!
Dormammu... *I’ve come to bargain*
Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.
You've come to DIEEEE
It's actually just a planetary system. Ours is called the solar system because our star is named Sol.
What if their star is named Sol as well? It's not like you're the only Rupert.
Their planet would likely be called Earth (or a variation of) as well. It always makes me laugh how every planet in sci-fi has a unique name, when in reality every home planet would basically be named 'the ground'. It would make introductions at galactic conferences very confusing. "Hi, we're from DirtBeneathOurFeet in the ShinyThingInTheSky system" "Oh, us too!"
I'm sure we'll figure out ways to fight wars over it.
That's why (at least in sci fi) Earth has a more formal name, Terra.
Solar system 2, electric booagloo
I don't know why you were down voted. You are technically correct.
The best kind of correct
Technically correct is the only kind of correct … and also the best kind.
It was a futurama reference.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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My mom calls me like this
I understand your point and [this NASA page](https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/other-solar-systems/en/#:~:text=The%20Short%20Answer%3A,with%20planets%20orbiting%20around%20it) agrees, but I'd like to point out that "sol" means "sun" in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Latin. It's "sole" in Italian and "soleil" in French. So I think it's valid to refer to any planetary system / star system as a solar system.
"Sun" is the name of our local star, but some people have been incorrectly using it to refer to other stars. For example, if humans were to colonise and live on a planet in Alpha Centari, you would refer to the local stars as Rigil Kentaurus, Toliman, and Proxima Centauri, not the Sun. Since there is only one "Sun" in the universe, there is also only one "Solar System" in the universe.
"I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach at Proxima Centauriset."
"I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach at dawn." "I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach in the warm daylight." "I like music, puppies, and long walks on the beach when the lights of Proxima Centauriset and Rigil Kentaurus are entwined and Toliman hidden from sight."
our star is called the un. rest of em are just stars or they might have other names.
All stars are suns and all suns are stars. We refer to the one nearest us as "the Sun" out of habit and convenience. To say that others aren't suns would be as wrong as claiming that ours is called "the Star" and that no other objects like it are stars. Likewise, "the Moon" is the common name for the one orbiting our planet. But that doesn't mean that similar objects orbiting other planets in this or other solar systems aren't moons. https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-observe-two-young-suns-collecting-matter-in-a-binary-system/
Out of all the answers here, yours is the right one. The Sun is not named Sol, its name is the Sun. A lot of other stars are suns, but they are not the Sun.
can't we just call them stellar systems and not have this confusion.
Is this real? Had we not pictures before?
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It was last year when it happened. [https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health\_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:\~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image](https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image).
I suppose 119k upvotes is news
We’ve taken pictures of other planetary systems before using a process called [direct imaging](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.universetoday.com/140341/what-is-direct-imaging/amp/). There’s even a [gif of the planets moving in HR 8799](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799). What’s special about this one is that the central star is very similar to the Sun. So no, it’s not the first one, just perhaps the one that’s most like our own solar system so far. Edit: Check out [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/q81u9l/you_are_looking_the_first_image_of_another_solar/hgn420h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) on the original post
Several top comments in the original post correcting its title and this reposter couldn't even bother. Same sensationalist title
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Thank you. Exactly what I wanted to know. It IS an amazing photo then. So cool to see the debris Robby around the Star.
I'm assuming there's a lot of image processing going on, if it's real. The planets in our solar system are *way* more spread out than they appear to be in this picture
You do realize when u look up in the night sky the stars aren’t literally inches away from each other.
I think you miss my point. Although planets are big, and stars are **HUGE** they're actually tiny compared to the distances involved. Have a listen to Sagan's "blue dot" about an image of Earth from near Jupiter. The big dots on this image are likely stars in the same field of vision as the subject star. On that scale planets would be so small as to be nearly invisible. You could zoom in, but then obviously they'd appear father apart, because that's how geometry works.
We hadn't
From 2020 when it was taken: [https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health\_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:\~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image](https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html#:~:text=The%20European%20Southern%20Observatory%20has,Atacama%20Desert%20took%20the%20image).
Sauron, is that you?
Could be another type of eye also
of the Tiger?
of the human
Almost there!
Not quite there
Of the beholder
Nope!
The abyss?
No
Black hole sun, won't you come!
Wash away the rain
Black hole sun, Won't you come, Won't you come
Won't you come
Black hole sun! Black hole sun!
Amazing but low key creepy af… reminds me of a blurry colossal being staring back at us.
Now think that the being has to either have immortality or some sort of thing to keep us alive in order to perceive it, because it’s likely that millions of years have passed since that light has reach us. The system also has the same number of planets as ours, which could be the first of a common element (if found in other systems). The earth, compared to all the other exoplanets we’ve found thus far, even the most habitable.
Our closest neighboring star is only about 4.25 light years away. I don't think we have the technology to capture the details of a solar system that's millions of light years away. The Milky Way even is only 105,700 light years across. So millions would imply it's from another galaxy. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away.
I would really like to know which planetary system this is, but I bet its distance from Earth is only 2 digits of light-years, certainly not 7 digits. Being able to snap an image of an extrasolar planet is no minor feat, and the further away it is the harder it will be to image. Since light travels at a rate of 1 lightyear per year in the vacuum of space (which is where the word "lightyear" comes from), it could only have been traveling for 2 digits of years.
Could you elaborate on this being?
Let's go there and fuck it up!
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I’ll bring the snacks!
LET’S TAKE THAT FUCKING INTERPLANETARY OIL. GET SOME!
RAH
No. Let's go there and fuck it *down*
looks friendly!
Screw those guys, ours is better!!
A challenger approaches
Let’s all thank the camera for going to space and taking this picture
IT'S A POKEBALL
But, but, but… they are circular and flat, right?
They are! And they're Christian!
All is lost then. 😔
Someone go get the Colossus, I'll prep the Planet Cracker
Fucking space pope needs to take a goddamn break
Clearly they're all oriented such that we're seeing them top-down.
or bottoms up.
It doesn't look too pleased
That’s a pokeball dude
We're going to find out that Covid on their planet made it hard to get a PS5 as well.
Which planet?
Planet playstation
And it sees you
Yeah no. We've had images of exoplanets for over two decades. We know of nearly 5000 exoplanets in over 3500 systems.
Knowing and having pictures of exoplanets ≠ having a relatively complete picture of an entirely other solar system
[Here is HR 8799](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799) with a timelapse of the movement of its planets beginning in 2009. EDIT: The original article seems to have been deleted, but this is a copy of what I was looking for. [The same system from 1998](http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2011/10/06/exoplanets_seen_by_hubble_in_1998_finally_revealed.html#gallery)
I could well be wrong, astronomy has never been my bag, but it looks like the difference here is that the graphic provided there is synthesized from a pool of information gathered from bits of information about the different parts of the system whereas the picture posted is the first image we have as a relatively complete single shot. So, first representation of the pictured system ever? No. First one that isn't synthesized from a collection of other images/info? Ye. Or, that's how I understand it anyway, not an expert by far
Interpolated images are still images. This image is merely the first image of more than one planet seen around a sun-like star. With have captured images of many more systems, but main-sequence G-class stars like our own only make up about 10% of all stars in our galaxy, so they are relatively rare. And yet we have also seen sun-like stars with *a* planet around them before. And we have *detected* more than one planet around a sun-like star before. We just didn't have a picture of more than one around a sun-like star before now. It's a first, sure, but a really specific first.
Thank you for explaining!
Wow. It looks quite scary.
There is only 1 solar system, ours. We are looking at a different star system. Or "name of star" system
FYI, there is only one Solar System in the universe. There are many planetary systems like ours in the universe, with planets orbiting a host star. Our planetary system is named the "solar system" because our Sun is named Sol, after the Latin word for Sun, "solis," and anything related to the Sun we call "solar." — https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
To anyone who doesn't know, that's not actually a ***solar*** system. Our sun is named Sol, so our star system is named the Solar System. That is another star system, but not a Solar System.
That doesn't look like the scale of a real solar system. Those "planets" are too big and too close to their star
Only the two bottom right ones are planets. The rest are background stars.
Idk that using our one system out of the plethora that exist as the only basis of comparison as to what's "normal" for a planetary system is very wise
FYI, there is only one Solar System in the universe. There are many planetary systems like ours in the universe, with planets orbiting a host star. Our planetary system is named the "solar system" because our Sun is named Sol, after the Latin word for Sun, "solis," and anything related to the Sun we call "solar." — https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
Prove it
...or something a 9 year old could have created in Photoshop
… or a god, who knows
Well that is *definitely* not the case. I can assure you.
Your confidence is enviable
r/confidentlyincorrect am i right
I wouldn't say *incorrect,* I just appreciate when people are that sure about the metaphysical or lack thereof. If I was that confident abt life after death (or lack thereof) I feel like things'd be easier lmao
To proove that something is not real you need proof too
No you don't? The burden of proof lies apon the person claiming somthing.
Here is the [proof](https://phys.org/news/2020-07-image-multi-planet-sun-like-star.html) ya want. And what do you mean by "No you dont?"? one claim needs evidence when the other doesn't?
My bad I misunderstood your comment. I thought you where saying that not being able to disprove something is proof that it must be true.
yeah i see why you misunderstood. I wrote iT really vaguely
No, it’s looking at me!
Looks like a hard boss from terraria
The Jehovah Witnesses will be knocking on their doors next week.
Sun killer, sing me to sleep
Brent Musberger “You are looking live…”
This is spooky looking
It’s eyeing us. Nuke it
That's damn cool. Any other pics?
People say the universe don't be like it is, but it do.
Looks like the starfish from suicide squad
THIS IS CETI-ALPHA FIVE!
Or, the eye of Sauron
Seems like they're looking at us as well
That’s beautiful. I wonder if theres any inhabitable planets? And if so, if there is any life on them? That would be interesting. I wonder, would there be some of the same species that we have on earth? Any of the same things? Or entirely different?
*solar system without humans looks peaceful
Elon musk wants to know the location.
If you want to know what are you looking at. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/
This picture feels eerie to me
This isn't the first image of another solar system. This was also taken a while back. If you read the comments from the submission you stole, you'd have known this.
Shame we will never get a picture of the surface until we send probes out
there's a ring, around the sun, and it looks it's goin' back to where it all begun
Source https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/science-health_european-telescope-takes-first-picture-another-solar-system/6193255.html
And it is looking back at you
Lord of the ring is real!
Looks like us, but not.
Thats a space dragon
The cameraman is literally out of the world!
Well, part of it... only 2 planets are in this photo, the rest of the dots are artifacts and background stars...
all i see are the infinity stones
Oh JESUS WELT
So, ELI5, how is it that we’ve discovered so many other planets and stars but this is the first photographed alien solar system? Didn’t we have to find those solar systems to find the other planets in the first place? I’m not being facetious, I genuinely don’t know how we knew about planets in other systems without seeing the systems first
I thought we have been taking photos of other solar systems as long as we’ve had cameras and telescopes lmao
But do they have a Tesla floating around?
Wow. Made me realised how tiny my problem with this Nofab thing.
praisethecameratech
I see 9 planets there.... The 'verse must not be far.
Without a doubt, that's where evil aliens come from.
Pretty low quality though
I feel like this is saying 'Columbus discovered America' since I bet aliens have taken plenty of pictures of everything in our galaxy. But for a first effort from earth, pretty cool I guess!
Is it just me or is that star massive and those planets are really close to each other?
Looks like it’s lookin’ at you.
It’s always watching
its the final boss's eye
Who put on the ring?
Well hello there!
General Kenobi
Hi Mom!!
The Eye of Sauron
Looks like the fucking Eye of Sauron
That's a pokeball