Monday, September 15, 2008

First Picture of Alien Planet Orbiting Sunlike Star?

September 15, 2008 - National Geographic
An image released today of a distant star and its potential planetary companion could go down in history as the first picture of a planet outside our solar system orbiting a sunlike star.
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Now scientists at the University of Toronto have captured infrared images of a so-called normal star and its potential orbiter using a ground-based telescope at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii.
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