APOD: 2008 September 19 - Companion of a Young Sun like Star
This is big news. An actual photograph of a planet in another solar system. Within the last few years, they’ve found scads of planets around other solar systems, but I’ve never heard of there being a direct photograph.
From APOD:
this picture likely represents the first direct image of a planet belonging to a star similar to the Sun.
Does that mean there have been other direct images of planets around non sun-like stars?
In any case, this is incredibly cool.
