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IS IT OR ISN’T IT?

Possibly the first photograph ever taken of a planet outside the solar system, this 1998 image shows a faint object 450 light-years from Earth (lower left, connected to a pair of stars by a luminous filament). Credit: NASA

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  • The Taurus-Auriga complex is only 450 light-years away, NOT 450 million light-years. That's too far to image a small planet with present technology. Please rectify typo.
    TitoTheThird TitoTheThird
    Aug. 15, 2010 at 10:39am
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