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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (2020)

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a…
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Oct 14, 2021First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (2020) by echelon16141

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