First Picture of Alien Planet Orbiting Sunlike Star?

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 16:56 in Astronomy & Space

A hot, young body 500 light-years from Earth could be the first planet outside our solar system circling a sunlike star to have its picture taken, astronomers report.

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