The first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope:
Planet Fomalhaut b orbits the star Fomalhaut, 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis.
I cannot help but be reminded of Tolkien:
'The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.'
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More reports from the IAU meeting at Torino, this time on surprises with the putative planet around Fomalhaut.
The IAU Symposium 276 comes to a close in Torino with a late surprise.
Coronographic imaging with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, on the Hubble Space Telescope, has revealed a jupiter mass planetary companion, with confirmed common proper motion with its parent star, Fomalhaut.
Using the Hubble Telescope, scientists have successfully viewed a planet revolving around a different star than our beloved Sun for the first time.
"The Beta Pic animation looked so cool that we’ve wanted to do more. We wanted to make one that was even more impactful for the audience and could begin to show what one of these systems looks like." -Jason Wang
A team using Gemini also announced imaging of planets in another system (HR 8799) today, except they found two!
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11151
Here it's the _Mote_ in the Eye of Sauron that's interesting.