Extrasolar planetary system makes pictorial debut

First images of planetary system beyond the solar system released

They’ve got the whole world in their hands. Four worlds, actually.

FOMALHAUT B The Hubble Space Telescope took this visible light image of what is almost certainly a planet (Fomalhaut b, inset) shown at two points along its orbit of the roughly 200-million-year-old star Fomalhaut (shown at center, its light was blocked to create the image).