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Hubble's First Direct Look at Possible Planet Around Another Star
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Hubble's First Direct Look at Possible Planet Around Another Star
Depicts: TMR-1, Taurus Molecular Ring, TMR-1c Copyright: Susan Terebey (Extrasolar Research Corp.), and NASA Show in archive: true
This NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope near-infrared image of newborn binary
stars (image center) reveals a long thin nebula pointing toward a faint
companion object (bottom left) which could be the first extrasolar
planet to be imaged directly.