First picture of a planet around another star

[Rsv1000R]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-211

November 13, 2008

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. The team of astronomers who made the discovery includes researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish."