Pictures of planets outside our solar system surface

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/17/2008 10:38 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Pretty cool really. Astronomers have successfully taken the first images of planets that fall outside of our solar system. In fact, these planets that orbit stars other than our own, were photographed using new imaging techniques.

Four planets in total were photographed circling two different stars. And while we know of about 300 planets out of our solar system, this is the first time any of them have been photographically captured.

The problem with imaging before is that stars were so bright, they

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