File image of the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in June 2001. (This is not the observatory in Chile where the planet was photographed.) Scientists confirmed today for the first time ever, that astronomers photographed a planet orbiting a sun other than our own. Photographs were taken late last year by the (ESO) in Chile, but it has taken since then to confirm that the body is indeed a planet — five times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet that orbits our own sun.
File image of the (NOT) telescope at in June 2001. (This is not the observatory in Chile where the planet was photographed.) Scientists confirmed today for the first time ever, that astronomers photographed a planet orbiting a sun other than our own. Photographs were taken late last year by the (ESO) in Chile, but it has taken since then to confirm that the body is indeed a planet — five times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet that orbits our own sun.
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Nordic Optical Telescope
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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory