See 17 Years of an Exoplanet’s Orbit in One Captivating GIF
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Ok, I am properly and unreservedly impressed. Never in my life did I ever dream I would ever see such a thing, and it is wondrous.
Crazy that it seems exacly edge-on to us.
I'm going to take a swing at that being a function of how it was identified in the first place.