Meet the neighbor . The Hubble Space Telescope has manage to shoot our first picture of a planet outside our solar system , only 25 light year out in the constellation Piscis Australis . The satellite Fomalhaut - B revolve the star Fomalhaut , and it ’s a round the bend 260 degrees ( Fahrenheit ) , cool than other exo - planets . And meanwhile , Lawrence Livermore research worker believe they ’ve snapped pics of three other exo - planet , in the Pegasus constellation . Click through for more pics . That elephantine cerise ring , by the way , is a 21.5 billion mile debris disc surrounding Fomalhaut , which is Arabic for “ oral fissure of the Pisces . ” The planet is a white soupcon over towards the right field . The three Pegasus planets are orbiting the genius HR 8799 , which is just barely visible in the night sky using opera glasses . The Lawrence Livermore crew had establish these planets in 2007 , but waited to reassert their finding . Like Fomalhaut - B , the other three planets are gas behemoth , but they ’re way hotter than Fomalhaut - B. None of these planets is likely to plunk for life , at least as we realize it . Here ’s an infrared picture of HR 8799 that shows its planets :
And here are some more pics of Fomalhaut - B , let in a porny artist ’s impression .
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