First extra-solar planet discovered

Hubble Snaps First Photo Of Planet Circling A Star — InformationWeek

It took about seven years, but NASA has finally found a planet that circles another star.
The Hubble Space Telescope took the first visible-light snapshot of Fomalhaut b, which orbits a southern star, called Fomalhaut, about 25 light-years away.
NASA said Thursday that the planet is estimated to be less than three times Jupiter’s mass, and the star is part of the constellation Piscis Australis, or the “Southern Fish.” The finding has been published in the Nov. 14 issue of Science magazine.

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