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Originally Posted by timb
I seem to recall the first direct imaging of exoplanets being announced several times already. I think these are the first images of objects that aren't arguably brown dwarfs (well, HR 8799c/d could be over 13M J).
... To be fair Kalas predicted planets around Formalhaut in 2005. |
Today's
APOD image shows an insert of the exoplanet's image taken in 2004 and 2006. I assume yesterday was the offical announcement of the first
confirmed directly observed object. But am I right about this?
