Star Photography: Can We See Stars as Disks?

[thetexan]

TL;DR

Photographs of stars

Has the telescopes gotten good enough to photograph an actual disk of any star? Or are they all just points of light?

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[Drakkith]

Absolutely. Several stars have been resolved. Wikipedia has a list of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_with_resolved_images

Note that some of these are not 'conventional' images, but instead use specialized techniques and/or non-visible wavelengths to generate images.

 

[DennisN]

@Drakkith , wow, that's so cool. I did not know that. Thanks for posting!

 

[berkeman]

Wikipedia has a list of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_with_resolved_images

Rhut-Rho...

 

[diogenesNY]

That is _freakin' cool_!

Now let's take it an order of magnitude deeper: directly imaged exoplanets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exoplanets
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/imaging.htmldiogenesNY