/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12788044
Exoplanets have been directly imaged for over a decade. I assume you either mean when will we see Earth-like planets or when will surface detail be seen. Earth like planets may be directly imaged in 20 years. The 39 meter European ELT could be first to image super-earths, but truly Earth like planets may take a dedicated space mission.
Resolving exoplanets to see surface details is much harder. That will require large arrays of telescopes, with separations of thousands of kms. That probably won't happen for 50 years, progress on space based interferometers has been delayed many times.

>>11935218
>I don't really give a fuck about them until they start imaging exoplanets
You shit on ground based telescopes but you're scientifically illiterate. Exoplanets have been imaged, for more than a decade. The work is almost almost exclusively done the from the ground.

>>11929888
Since 2006.

How long do I have to wait unil we get more like gif related? Any upcoming telescopes focusing on this? I don't care about shitty renderings of the Trappist system or whatever, I want ACTUAL FOOTAGE GIMME FOOTAGE NOW

>>11207998
>passes in front of a star
>pic rel blocks your path

we are already able to "see" very large exoplanets e.g. in the HR 8799 system

>>10299128
Earth-sized exoplanets, but in good quality unlike pic related.