Upsilon Andromedae Gallery

• Pictures: comparisons of Upsilon Andromedae with our Solar System:
  • inner planets only: GIF or PS
  • out to Jupiter: GIF or PS
  • inner planets with radial velocity: GIF or PS
  • out to Jupiter with radial velocity: GIF or PS and caption
• Animations (JAVA applet):
  • -> Upsilon Andromedae only (*)
  • -> Solar system, inner planets only (*)
  • -> Solar system, all but Pluto (*)
  • -> Upsilon Andromedae vs. Solar System, inner planets only (*)
  Note: If you are using an older browser, follow the (*) links to run a JDK1.0 complient version of the applet, otherwise click on the arrow.

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• Schematic illustration of the Upsilon Andromedae system:
  GIF image and text

• Artist renderings of the Upsilon Andromedae system:
  smallJPEG image (640x400: 200 kB)
  largeJPEG image (1280x800: 670 kB)
• Animations of the artist rendering of the Upsilon Andromedae system:
  short MPEG movie (1.3 MB)
  long MPEG movie (3.9 MB)

Note: The respective sizes in the artist renderings are schematic only; we do not really know the sizes of these giant planets (here they are depicted with their respective volume proportional to the inferred minimum mass).
The relative rotation speeds and distances are acurate (but the orbits eccentricities are not taken into account yet). The short movie corresponds to 10 rotations of "b" and thus corresponds to 46 days, the long movie starts `earlier', and corresponds to a 4-month-long span.

Credit: Rendering and animation created with blender, background image of the Andromedae constellation courtesy of Till Credner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie); rendering by Sylvain G. Korzennik.