{"id":728,"date":"2008-09-17T03:03:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/09\/17\/snapshot-of-a-planet-beyond-the-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:35","slug":"snapshot-of-a-planet-beyond-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/09\/17\/snapshot-of-a-planet-beyond-the-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot of a planet beyond the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2019s mass, lies exceptionally far from its presumed parent star \u2014 roughly 11 times Neptune\u2019s average distance from the sun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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