November 14, 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald
ASTRONOMERS have parted the curtains of space to take the first photographs of planets that orbit stars other than our sun.
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Two teams took part in the milestone. The first, led by Berkeley researchers, used the Hubble space telescope to take a picture of a giant planet orbiting Fomalhaut, a star that is 25 light years from Earth.
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The other effort relied on the giant Keck and Gemini telescopes in Hawaii to image three planets surrounding the young star HR8799, 130 light years away.
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