Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world for the first time by taking an actual image of the newly discovered exoplanet orbiting Fomalhaut — latter discoveries have always been made by detecting changes in the parent star's movement, or by food fast the planet momentarily eclipse the star — not by detecting them in images. Hubble's time to shine was overshadowed though by the Keck and Gemini observatories broadcasting that they had taken bijou of not just one planet, but an entire alien solar system. The images show assorted planets orbiting the star HR 8799 — 3 have been imaged so far."

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