Check out this amazing picture of what may be the first photograph evidence of a planet outside of our solar system. Using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai‘i to take this image of the young star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 and its solar companion. Through analysis scientists beileve the planet to be 8 times the size of Jupiter and roughly 330 times the distance of Earth to our Sun from it's own Sun. Check out the full story at Gemini Observatory.
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