Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut

I can't help but wonder what the astronomers peering over these pictures did when they spotted the planet.  Can you imagine the chills they must have felt when they spotted the planet?  Did they leap up and "WHOOP?"  Or were they more sedate?

This is a remarkable achievement and has occurred sooner than predicted.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

That's a planet you're looking at 25 light years away.  Now that's cool.

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