By Science News
![Exoplanets in Sight](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/9193.jpg?resize=300%2C224&ssl=1)
Planets, planets everywhere
Extrasolar planetary system makes its pictorial debut
Two teams of extrasolar planet hunters reported that they have achieved a long-sought milestone: obtaining what appear to be the first bona fide images of planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system (SN: 12/6/08, p. 5).
One team, using the Hubble Space Telescope, recorded a single planet around the massive star Fomalhaut, which lies just 25 light-years from Earth. The other team, using two large ground-based telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, took images of three planets orbiting a star — the first portrait of an entire planetary system outside the solar system. Details of both findings appeared online November 13 in separate articles in Science.