First ever direct image of another solar system...

A multi-planet system to be exact...

With a young, sun-like star...

300 light-years away from us...

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Do you know what instrument was used to capture this?

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun. The observations can help astronomers understand how planets formed and evolved around our own Sun.

Holy smokes! That’s a ground based telescope. Amazing.

300 LY is VERRRY close in galactic terms.