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| After years of searching, astronomers may finally have recorded the first image of a planet orbiting a sunlike star beyond the solar system. The body, about eight times Jupiter’s mass, lies exceptionally far from its presumed parent star — roughly 11 times Neptune’s average distance from the sun. |
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| The faint dot in the upper left could be the first snapshot of a planet orbiting a sunlike star (central object) beyond the solar system. The planet’s unusually wide separation from the star may challenge planet formation models. |
Snapshot of a planet beyond the solar system was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon