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This Is the First Image of Planets Orbiting a Sun-Like Star in Deep Space – Vice Impact
An international team of astronomers snapped this photo of a young star and its two gigantic planets from a distance of 300 light years.
“TYC 8998-760-1 is the first directly imaged multiplanet system that is detected around a young, solar analog,” the researchers added.
While astronomers snap pictures of stars all the time, any planets in these systems are normally too dim to show up in images. For this reason, the vast majority of exoplanets, which are worlds outside our solar system, are discovered when they pass in front of their stars from our perspective on Earth, allowing scientists to detect a dip in the brightness of th…
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