Date: November 14th, 2008

Fomalhaut B: first optical image of an exoplanet

14 November, 2008 (14:51) | 1 comment

Astronomers discovered on picture taken by Hubble Space Telesope of Fomolhaut star a tiny dot, which has been identified as its orbiting planet called Fomalhaut B. It has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.6 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies 2.9 billion kilometers [...]