text: Telescope takes first image of planet outside our solar system
  
  April 2, 2005 
  
  "Space.com" reported yesterday on a picture of a planet taken by the Very Large Telescope located in Chile. The European Southern Observatory's telescope, which was used to capture the picture, has made the first confirmed discovery of a planet orbiting another star. 
  Scientists have been trying to locate planets outside our own solar system for nearly 10 years. Inferences of nearly 150 planets in other solar systems have been observed so far by using instruments and measurements that only suggest the existence of another planet. Until now, no planet has been confirmed by the means of a photographed image. There was, months earlier, another team of scientists who took pictures of what might be another planet, but that image remains controversial because it shows what may be an even more distant object instead. 
  The research team that photographed the planet with its host star was led by Ralph Neuhaeuser of the Astrophysical Institute & University Observatory (AIU). "The detection of the faint object near the bright star is certain," he told "Space.com" on Friday.
tokens: Telescope takes first image of planet outside our solar system April 2 , 2005 " Space.com " reported yesterday on a picture of a planet taken by the Very Large Telescope located in Chile . The European Southern Observatory 's telescope , which was used to capture the picture , has made the first confirmed discovery of a planet orbiting another star . Scientists have been trying to locate planets outside our own solar system for nearly 10 years . Inferences of nearly 150 planets in other solar systems have been observed so far by using instruments and measurements that only suggest the existence of another planet . Until now , no planet has been confirmed by the means of a photographed image . There was , months earlier , another team of scientists who took pictures of what might be another planet , but that image remains controversial because it shows what may be an even more distant object instead . The research team that photographed the planet with its host star was led by Ralph Neuhaeuser of the Astrophysical Institute & University Observatory ( AIU ) . " The detection of the faint object near the bright star is certain , " he told " Space.com " on Friday .
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