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Apparently, this is the first time ever where "astronomers have captured an optical image of a planet orbiting a star like our own." Click here for first picture in gallery.

Do you see it? That tiny spark, that wee blip of light? It may not look like much, but it is in fact a normal planet orbiting a normal star, 250 trillion kilometers from Earth.
[via Gizmodo - Badastronomy]

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This entry was posted on 11/14/2008 01:00am and is filed under Science, Space .
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