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... 
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... 
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.