Submission + - "First Family" captured by ground based te (gemini.edu)
G3CK0 writes: "Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope and W.M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea have obtained the first-ever direct images identifying a multi-planet system around a normal star.
"We finally have an actual image of an entire system," said Bruce Macintosh, an astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and a member of the team of scientists who made the observations.
"This is a milestone in the search and characterization of planetary systems around stars."
The full press release may be found here."
"We finally have an actual image of an entire system," said Bruce Macintosh, an astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and a member of the team of scientists who made the observations.
"This is a milestone in the search and characterization of planetary systems around stars."
The full press release may be found here."
