Astronomers Capture First Ever Images of Another Solar System

In an unprecedented discovery, a team of Canadian, U.S. and British astronomers have used telescopes atop the summit of a dormant Hawaiian volcano to capture images of three giant planets orbiting a star known as HR 8799. Comparisons of images obtained in different years show that the three planets, each roughly ten times the mass of Jupiter, are all moving with and orbiting around the star, proving that they are associated with it and are part of a solar system.

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