Scientists reveal first-ever photo of a solar system like ours
This is cool, and none political for once! Heh not that I’m tired of politics but I love science, and space, and well scientists have captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own. The new image is a family portrait of sorts, showing two giant exoplanets orbiting a young, sun-like star, roughly 300 light years away. The picture was taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope , located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. According to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters , the system will help astronomers better understand how our solar system formed and evolved. The star, known as TYC 8998-760-1 and located in the Southern constellation of Musca, is only 17 million years old, which researchers called a “very young version of our own sun.” Comparatively, the sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old. Both planets orbiting the star, dubbed TYC 8998-760-1b and TYC 8998-760-1c, are suspected to be gas giants, meaning they are compo