AU Mic b: A Comparison of AU Mic b's Position with Other Known Exoplanets

A visualization of the AU Mic system location compared with the position of the Sun, on which the green circles are centered. The green circles have radii between 10 and 100 light years. After a few seconds I turn on the locations of all 2,979 currently known and confirmed exoplanet systems for which we know the precise distance from the Sun (required to determine their 3D position). Notice how some of the exoplanet systems form square patterns in the sky when the camera is close to the Sun, at the seventh second of the video near the center of the frame: those are the shapes of the Kepler detectors, back when it always stared in the same direction during its main mission. When we move away from the Sun, we can better see how known exoplanets are located either relatively close to the Sun, or in the direction where Kepler stared.

This video was created with the Partiview software by AMNH:
https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-...

For more discussion of AU Mic b in this context, see my blog post here:
https://jgagneastro.com/2020/06/26/au...