Astronomers Get Direct Images of Two Extrasolar Systems

Credit: NASA/ESA/P. KALAS (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)
Astronomers believe this Hubble Space Telescope image of the star Fomalhaut includes the first extrasolar planet ever detected directly in visible light (insets). A separate near-infrared image collected with the Keck and Gemini telescopes in Hawaii, also released last week, directly revealed what...

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