I think a picture like that--though marvelous--is probably not much closer than midcentury. However, I'm crossing my fingers that we'll see an unambiguous Earthlike (in the broadest sense, an Earth-mass planet with a clear water signature in a star's habitable zone) before 2025.
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"Call me old-fashioned, but I think fire is magic. And it scares me a lot."
--The State
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