January 8, 2014 - Gizmodo
It
might not be much to look at, but this image is insanely exciting.
You're looking at the first ever image of a planet, orbiting a star,
over 63 light years from Earth.
Acquired by the world's most powerful planet-hunting instrument, the Gemini Planet Imager,
it shows a 10-million-year-old planet called Beta Pictorus orbiting
its giant parent star. It's the first such image to come from Gemini,
which has been under development for over a decade but is only now
producing data like this.
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