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First Photo of a Planet Outside Our Solar System

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30-06-2010 4:53pm

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#2 30-06-2010 7:27pm
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While we're talking exoplanets, this is the follow up to the Kepler telescope, it's going to look at 2.5 million stars and they hope to detect a lot of earth sized planets with it. When used in conjunction with the James Webb space telescope, I can't wait to see what's going to turn up.

http://space.mit.edu/TESS/Mission_presentation/Welcome.html

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#3 01-07-2010 2:05am
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It's not the first directly imaged planet outside our solar system, it's the first one seen around a star like our Sun. There have been 13 planets directly imaged so far. http://exoplanet.eu/catalog-imaging.php

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