Monday, December 13, 2010

First Four Exoplanet System Imaged

We know they are out there; now we are starting to 'see' them.

Picture embedded below.



"Among one of the first exoplanet systems imaged was HR 8799. In 2008, a team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, took a picture of the system directly imaging three giant planets. The team revisited the system in 2009 – 2010 with the Keck II telescope and discovered a fourth planet in the system."

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