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The German magazine Bild has a story that a team of astronomers have actually taken IR pictures of an exoplanet system around HR 8799, about 130 light years away. There are three planets, all larger than Jupiter, visible as three specks in the pictures. In addition, a team from the University of California has Hubble pictures in visible light of a triple Jupiter mass exoplanet orbiting Formalhaut, which is 25 ly away. Both discoveries are firsts for the exoplanet hunt.
Here's a link to a story in Astronomy about this:
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7599
and in Science Express:
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/ [Broken]
Actual pictures of an exoplanet! Bravo!
Here's a short clip from Yahoo with Kalas explaining his discovery:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sci_new_planets [Broken]
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Here's a link to a story in Astronomy about this:
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7599
and in Science Express:
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/ [Broken]
Actual pictures of an exoplanet! Bravo!
Here's a short clip from Yahoo with Kalas explaining his discovery:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sci_new_planets [Broken]
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