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First picture of a sunlike star with multiple exoplanets

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The star TYC 8998-760-1 (top center) was photographed with two giant exoplanets (arrows), the first time astronomers have directly imaged more than one planet orbiting a sunlike star. The bright spots above star TYC 8998-760-1 are other stars in the background. BOHN ET AL/ESO

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For the first time, an exoplanet family around a sunlike star has had its portrait taken. Astronomers used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to snap a photo of two giant planets orbiting a young star with about the same mass as the sun, researchers report July 22 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-picture-sun-like-star-multiple-exoplanets-astronomy-planets

Nice post. +1. And nice picture.

Dinosaurs are a long way away for this solar system.

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