That’s No Moon… That’s an Exoplanet!

What happened

Motion interpolation is a technique commonly found in video editing and in modern TVs. It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems.

[Jason Wang] has several videos that use images taken over years to visualize the orbit of several large exoplanets. However, these planets move slowly, with orbital periods at least decades long, and predictably following Kepler’s laws.

You have to be a patient photographer, apparently. One video has 30 images taken over 17 years, for example.

Key facts

• Motion interpolation is a technique commonly — found: in video editing and in modern TVs